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DAMASCUS, Syria - Israel assassinated a Palestinian militant from Hamas with a car bomb that exploded just after he started his vehicle Sunday. The killing was Israel's first slaying of a Hamas member on Syrian soil and came after weeks of warnings that members of the Islamic militant group would not be safe anywhere.

Hamas responded by suggesting it may take its fight against Israel outside the Palestinian territories, according to a statement on its Web site.

"The Zionist enemy has opened a new door for the struggle by transferring the battle outside the land of Palestine, despite the fact that we in Hamas insisted on keeping our weapons against the enemy in the land which they occupied and we left hundreds of thousands of Zionists alone outside of the country," the statement said. "By today's action, the Zionist enemy should shoulder the consequences of what it did."

Police at the scene of al-Zahraa district explosion were seen retrieving pieces of the body of Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil. The car exploded outside his home at 10:45 a.m. when he tried to start it, Hamas officials said.

Witnesses, however, said Khalil, who had been speaking on his mobile phone, started the car and had just begun moving in the white Mitsubishi Jeep when it exploded some 10 yards from his home.

In Israel, the government issued no statement, but security officials acknowledged Israeli involvement in the killing. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.



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