According to a statement from Hamas' military wing, they are holding Israel responsible for the killing of Hamas operative Mazan Fukha Friday night outside his home in Tel al-Hawa, in the Gaza Strip. Fukha was freed as part of the 2011 deal to release captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and deported to Gaza. Fukha was jailed for life for organizing a 2002 suicide bombing on a bus - He was the one responsible for sending a suicide bomber to carry out an attack on a civilian bus on Meiron junction (nearby Safed) in northern Israel, in August 2002, in which 9 people were killed and 52 were wounded. He was captured by the IDF and Shin Bet security services that year in his home village of Toubas in the northern West Bank, after a long manhunt, but was released in the 2011 Shalit Deal, deported to Gaza and kept on executing attacks recently.
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