Terror attacks against Israel will continue even after it withdraws from the Gaza Strip, Hamas vowed. “We will continue the struggle against Israel even after it pulls back,” Mahmoud Al-Zahar, acting head of the Islamic terror group, said at a conference of Palestinian factions in Gaza City on Saturday. But aides to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who attended the meeting, were more upbeat, saying politics could sidetrack Hamas from its jihad against the Jewish state.
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