Israeli kill 8 of Hamas militant group

ISRAELI attacks killed eight Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip yesterday and the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Israel.

Hamas said the two bombers who attacked the southern Israeli town of Dimona came from the West Bank. On Monday, a different Palestinian militant group claimed responsibility and said the men had taken advantage of the breach of Gaza’s border breach to travel to Egypt and then sneak across the porous Egyptian border with Israel.

Hamas’s claim of responsibility raised the likelihood of even heavier fighting with Israel. Six of the militants were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a police station.