Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing al-Qassam Brigades vowed on Monday to kidnap more Israeli soldiers during the ongoing Israeli air and ground large-scale military operation carried out against Gaza.
Abu Obeida, the group's spokesman, during a news conference broadcasted by the pro-Hamas Television of al-Aqsa, addressed the Israeli soldiers that "Your colleague Gilad Shalit is missing you and wants to see you and we promised him to get him some of his friends."
Hamas captured Shalit in the summer of 2006 during an armed attack on an Israeli army base southeast of the Gaza Strip. Shalitis still captive and the talks on his release were stopped before Israel began operations into Gaza.
Meanwhile, Abu Obeida said they will also enlarge the areas of the rocket attacks. "We are ready to enlarge the circle of our rocket attacks and target more cities deep into southern and central Israel," he said as a map of Israel was hanged on the wall behind him.
"We tell the Zionists that your cities and strategic targets will be under our fire."
The Israeli army has been carrying out a wide-scale air and ground military operations into the Gaza Strip for ten days, leaving dozens of families homeless and over than 530 people killed and 2,600 wounded.
In spite of ten days of ongoing intensive and unprecedented air and ground strikes on the Gaza Strip and Hamas movement, Hamas militants and other militant groups continued launching rockets at southern Israel.
"As long as one and half million Palestinians under the fire of the enemy, we decided to enlarge our circle of rocket attacks and include areas into Israel with double population of the Gaza Strip," he said.
There are cities and towns "mainly Dimona (where the Israeli atomic radiator is) is not under our fire, but in case Israel expands its aggression, we will expand our attacks on those cities in the heart of the enemy's entity."
Source:Xinhua
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