Ahmed Al-Jaabari, Head Of Islamic Hamas Movement, Killed By Israeli Airstrike

This file photo taken on Oct. 18, 2011 shows that Ahmed al-Jaabari (R, Front) poses for a picture after a prisoner swap deal was made between Hamas and Israel, at Rafah border in southern Gaza Strip. The head of the armed wing of Islamic Hamas movement, Ahmed al-Jaabari, was killed along with another escort in an Israeli airstrike on their car Wednesday afternoon in Gaza City, Hamas and medical sources said.

Emergency services extinguish the burned out car of Qassam top leader Ahmed Jabari after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Nov. 14, 2012. Hamas says the head of its military wing Ahmed al-Jaabari has been killed in an Israeli air strike. Israel said it had targeted Ahmed al-Jaabari because of what it called his terrorist activity. Seven Palestinians were killed following a series of Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza city, and more than 40 others wounded, government’s emergency services in the Gaza Strip said. <Xinhua/Wissam Nassar>