Shin Bet Pushes Hamas Suicide Attack Lie as Its Latest Media Deception

HAMAS is seeking to launch a "large-scale" suicide attack inside Israel to torpedo chances of a peace deal with moderate Palestinians, a senior security official warned overnight.

The second in command of Israel's Shin Beth internal security services was quoted by a senior government official as telling ministers during the weekly cabinet meeting that the Islamist group's exiled leadership in Damascus is calling for such an attack.

"There is a clear directive from Hamas abroad to Hamas terrorists in the West Bank to carry out a deadly large-scale attack in Israel," the source quoted the security official as saying.

Hamas is seeking to torpedo any chance of a deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, led by president Mahmud Abbas, whose moderate Fatah movement was ousted from the Gaza Strip by Hamas in June, he said. News.com

Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal warned in an interview with AFP last week that despite renewed peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians, resistance remained the only option for his movement, whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.