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Hamas founder killed in Israeli airstrike
Angry Palestinians vow revenge
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded Hamas during the first Palestinian intifada.
GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of mourners jammed the streets of Gaza City Monday in a funeral procession for Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was killed earlier in the day in an Israeli targeted helicopter attack.
Yassin, 67, and seven others were killed as he accompanied a group leaving a mosque.
Sixteen others were wounded in the attack, including two of Yassin's sons; seven of the wounded were in critical condition, hospital sources said.
Israel Defense Forces acknowledged that it intentionally targeted the Hamas leader, saying Yassin was responsible for planning and directing terrorist attacks.
"This morning, in a security forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF targeted a car carrying the head of the Hamas terror organization, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and his aides," an IDF statement said.
"Yassin, responsible for numerous murderous terror attacks, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, both Israeli and foreign, was killed in the attack."
Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization, has been labeled by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization.
Palestinian officials condemned Israel's killing of Yassin, calling it an "assassination."
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei said the Palestinian Authority will take its grievance to the United Nations Security Council.
Later Monday, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli military outposts on the Lebanese border, Israeli military sources said.
Military sources said that Israeli warplanes returned fire toward the source of the shooting in Lebanon.
In Beirut, Hezbollah sources said the Brigade of Martyrs in the Islamic Resistance attacked six posts in area of Shebaa Farms -- a disputed area on the border known to Israelis as Har Dov.
Hezbollah said that Israel responded with raids on Kfar Choubi in the western sector of the area.
No damage or casualties were reported.
Attack on Yassin prompts strong reactions
Israeli government spokesman Avi Pazner said, "Sheikh Yassin was a dangerous, extremist Islamic ideologist. I believe that he was a threat not only to Israel, but to the entire region."
"I believe the Middle East without Sheikh Yassin, in the long run, will be a better place to live."
Ruth Maron, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military, said the IDF took action because the Palestinian Authority has failed "time and time again to do it, and we have no other choice."
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon thanked the security forces who carried out the operation and said the "war on terror is not over."
"The ideological essence of this man was one -- the murder and killing of Jews wherever they are and the destruction of the state of Israel," Sharon said.
Britain's foreign minister called the attack "unlawful" and condemned it, as did other world leaders. (Full story)
Mourners waved Palestinian flags and the flags of various Palestinian groups, including Hamas and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as they vowed revenge on Israel for the death of Hamas' spiritual leader.
Angry Hamas gunmen fired weapons into the air, promising revenge against Israel. Thousands of Yassin supporters chanted "Hamas is not dead."
Izzedine al Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, threatened reprisals in a statement. "Whoever decided to kill Yassin decided to kill hundreds of the Zionists," the statement said, making reference to Israelis. The group also accused the United States of being complicit in the deadly attack.
"The Zionists cannot have carried out this act without the approval of the U.S. administration, which carries the responsibility for this crime," the Izzedine al Qassam statement said.
White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, in a round of television interviews, said the United States did not know about the attack in advance.
"It is very important that everyone step back now and try now to be calm in the region," Rice told NBC's "Today" show, according to Reuters.
Izzedine al Qassam has claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military.
Reports of regional violence
Immediately after the attack, Israel Defense Forces sealed off Palestinian territories in Gaza and the West Bank. Several incidents of violence were reported throughout the region:
Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli troops protecting the Gush Katif settlement in southern Gaza, according to Israeli officials.
A Qassam rocket was fired into the Erez industrial zone at the border crossing between Gaza and Israel, a Hamas spokesman said. There were no reports of casualties.
In Tel Aviv, a Palestinian armed with an ax attacked Israelis, authorities reported. There were no serious injuries. The Palestinian was arrested.
The Israeli attack follows weeks of Israeli anti-terrorism military operations into Gaza in the aftermath of a terrorist bus bombing that killed eight people February 22 in Jerusalem.
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a military offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the bus bombing. Al Aqsa Brigades has attacked military and civilian targets in Israel, and in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel and the U.S. State Department consider it a terrorist organization.
Israel says the operations in Gaza are meant to target terrorists preparing to take part in attacks on Israelis. Several Palestinians have died in the operations, including civilians.
Last week, twin suicide bombings jointly claimed by Hamas and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades killed 10 people in the Israeli port city of Ashdod.
Immediately after the terrorist bombings, Sharon canceled a planned meeting with Qorei. The scheduled talks were an attempt to revive the so-called "road map" to Mideast peace. The plan, backed by the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia, calls for steps by both sides aimed at ending the conflict and establishing an independent Palestinian state by 2005.
The backers of the road map were expected to meet in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday, sources said.
CNN's Talal Aburahma contributed to this report.
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