Israel targets Hamas leader after bomb attack

A SENIOR Israeli official warned that the founder of the Islamic militant group Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was “marked for death”.

But he and other officials later that said any decision to kill Yassin would need approval from the prime minister.

Yassin, a quadriplegic, appeared in public on Friday and scoffed at the official's warnings. "We do not fear the threat of death," said Yassin, as an assistant pushed his wheelchair to a Gaza City mosque.