Al-Manar TV: "Hamas: Moghniyeh Murder 'Zionist Gangsterism'"

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In a series of condemnations of the assassination of Hezbollah top commander Imad Moghniyeh, a Syrian human rights watchdog accused Israel on Wednesday of state terrorism and the killing of Moghniyeh. "The killing of Imad Moghniyeh in the Kfar Suseh neighborhood of Damascus followed repeated threats by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to have Hezbollah and Hamas leaders killed wherever they are," the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said. "The action carried out by the Israeli government is a terrorist act of the sort condemned under international law," the watchdog's chairman Ammar Qorabi said. "Israel has acknowledged in the past having assassinated Ezzedine Sheikh Khalil, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, who died in a September 2004 car bombing in Damascus," Qorabi added.

In the same context, Hamas joined Syrian Human rights watchdog in accusing Israel of killing Moghniyeh, saying it was a "new example of Zionist gangsterism." Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called on Arabs and Muslims to "face up to this Zionist octopus whose crimes have gone far beyond Palestinian territories into the Arab and Islamic worlds."

Moreover, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command accused Israel's Mossad spy agency of being behind the killing. "Imad Moghniyeh was assassinated by the Zionist Mossad ... which was aware of the important status of the martyr and the privileged role he played in the struggle (jihad)," said a statement. "The Zionist murderers and their agents should know that the resistance will respond by aiming its bullets and its explosives at the leaders of Zionist terrorism and their agents," the statement added.

Tags: Mughniyeh, Hamas, Hizbullah, Syria