Hours after Defense Minister Amir Peretz threatened to assassinate terrorists involved in rockets attacks against Israel, an IAF aircraft fired missiles at a Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) training camp in the southern Gaza Strip late Thursday night killing four terror suspects including Jamal Abu Sahamdana, head of the PRC and responsible for most of the Kassam rocket attacks against Israel.

IDF sources confirmed the attack, claiming that Sahamdana and the other terrorists were in the midst of training a terror attack they planned to perpetrate against Israel when the missiles struck. Earlier in the day, Peretz ordered the IDF to step up the targeted killings of Palestinians involved in Kassam attacks against Israel.

"No terrorist from any of the organizations will be immune if they engage in anti-Israel terror activity," Peretz said during a meeting with security officials in Tel Aviv.

Abu Samhadana was a key player in rocket attacks on Israel and a suspect in the fatal 2003 bombing of a US convoy in the Gaza Strip. His recent appointment as director general of the Hamas-led Interior Ministry infuriated both Israel and Hamas' Fatah rivals, led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees vowed revenge.

"The Zionists and Israelis have opened the gates of hell by assassinating Abu Samhadana," spokesman Abu Abir said...