{"id":14041,"date":"2012-11-14T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14041"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:51:05","slug":"hamas-israeli-strike-has-opened-gates-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14041","title":{"rendered":"Hamas: Israeli strike &#8216;has opened gates of hell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamas: Israeli strike &#8216;has opened gates of hell\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\n14 November, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now\t  <\/p>\n<p>An Israeli air strike that killed top Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jaabari on Wednesday has &#8220;opened the gates of hell,&#8221; the armed wing of the ruling Islamist movement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The occupation has opened the gates of hell on itself,&#8221; said a statement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which vowed its militants would &#8220;continue the path of resistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israeli military spokesperson Avital Leibovich said the strike was the start of an operation targeting armed groups in Gaza following multiple rocket attacks on southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Jaabari was killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City that also killed his bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of Jaabari sparked furious protests in Gaza City, with hundreds of members of Hamas and its armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, chanting for revenge inside Shifa hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, armed men fired weapons into the air, and mosques throughout the city called prayers to mourn the commander&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian security sources and medics confirmed a total of four air strikes across Gaza during the late afternoon\u2014two in Gaza City, one of which killed Jaabari, one in northern Gaza, and a fourth in the southern city of Khan Yunis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowlebanon.com\/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=456581\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D14041&amp;text=Hamas%3A+Israeli+strike+%27has+opened+gates+of+hell%E2%80%99&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas: Israeli strike &#8216;has opened gates of hell\u2019 14 November, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now An Israeli air strike that killed top Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jaabari on Wednesday has &#8220;opened the gates of hell,&#8221; the armed wing of the ruling Islamist movement said. &#8220;The occupation has opened the gates of hell on itself,&#8221; said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14041#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3700],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14042,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041\/revisions\/14042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}