Hamas Official Mysteriously Killed in Damascus, Group Accuses Israel’s Mossad
haaretz.com
Kamel Ranaja.
Hamas leader believes Mossad behind killing, says Kamel Ranaja was former deputy of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh; Barak: He wasn’t one of the righteous ones.
A Hamas member was killed in Damascus Wednesday night, the French news agency AFP cited a senior official for the organization as saying, adding that Hamas suspected that the Mossad was behind the killing.
The official, who spoke anonymously, said that “a group of people entered the home of Kamel Ranaja (also known as Nizar Abu Mujhad), and killed him. According to information that we have gathered, the Mossad is behind the attack.”
According to the leader, Ranaja was a former deputy of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas official who was assassinated in Dubai over two years ago. A Lebanese television station aligned with Iran and Hamas confirmed Ranaja as al-Mabhouh’s former deputy.
