A senior Hamas official said there had been no decision to suspend suicide attacks against Israel. Hamas has “absolutely not called an end to the operations,” Khaled Mashaal said Thursday in Beirut. A day earlier, a Hamas official in the West Bank said the group was considering such a halt.
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