'Israel must be ready for confrontation with Hamas this summer'
The comments came two weeks after Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal stated that Hamas is in an “open war” with Israel.
Freed Palestinian prisoner Mohammed al-Bashiti, who served 12 years in an Israeli jail after he was convicted of being a member of Hamas’s armed wing, gestures as he holds a weapon in a pickup truck with Hamas militants upon his release, in the southern Gaza Strip, last year(photo credit: REUTERS)ByJPOST.COM STAFFUpdated: