After a monthlong lull in the terror attacks that shook Israel, two Islamic militant groups have threatened to resume their suicide bombing missions.
The Izz a-Din al-Kassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a leaflet distributed Tuesday to news agencies here that it was “not going to give up and is going to punish everyone who declared war against Hamas.”
The threat, which came on the eve of the Passover holiday, was issued a day after a smaller fundamentalist group, Islamic Jihad, promised new suicide attacks against the Jewish state.
The groups claimed responsibility for four suicide attacks against Israel in late February and early March that claimed the lives of 58 victims.
In their leaflet, the Hamas group referred to their suicide attacks as “the wonderful martyrdom operations.”
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