Yesterday it was reported that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had gone into hiding, in order to avoid the same fate met by so many of his terror underlings.
Today, Hamas has desperately tried to spin it differently.
The Hamas-run de facto government in the Gaza Strip says that Prime Minister Isma’il Haniyeh will ignore Israeli assassination threats and will go about is daily life as normal.
A Hamas government spokesperson said standard security measures would be in place to protect Haniyeh’s life. However, Reports that Haniyeh had gone into hiding, spokesperson Tahir An-Nunu said, are no more than”distasteful Israeli jokes.”
“That was incorrect. He did not go into hiding, neither did he run away. Haniyeh did not panic, and he practices his daily life as usual,” An-Nunu added.
Which according to the accompanying picture (taken from the Ma’an News report) includes daily soccer practice.
Asked about reports that Haniyeh moved to a new house, An-Nunu said only that Hamas has taken security precautions, but not to the degree of sending its leaders into hiding.
Hamas spokesperson Isma’il Radwan also commented on the Israeli news. He said, smilingly, “Here we are answering calls on cell phones; we have not disappeared.”
He said, “We will not disappear, and resistance will continue as the occupation’s leaders should realize that Hamas’ leaders believe that it is only God who decides when we die, and after all we are willing to die as martyrs.”
“The intensive security measures are meant to avoid the occupation’s plots to hit Hamas’ leaders, and if they do so, a volcano will erupt in their faces,” Radwan added.
Hmmm. The Hamas spin machine better go back and do their homework, since news of Haniyeh’s running for cover was first reported in the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, hardly a Zionist news source.
