Hamas calls off truce with Israel

After a ceasefire that lasted 16 months, Hamas's armed wing vowed on Friday to renew attacks against Israel hours after IDF artillery shells killed seven civilians.

"The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle and that means the earthquake in the Zionist cities will resume and the herds of occupiers have no choice but to prepare the coffins or the departing luggage," the group said in a statement.

For the first time since the August withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the IDF targeted a Hamas cell involved in firing Qassam rockets into Israel on Friday afternoon.

Mohammad Abu Sahila, a Hamas military commander, and his assistant, Ahmad Siam, were injured when a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter hit their car in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp.

Hamas' political leadership has not immediately comment on the statement.

'No Jews will be left in Palestine'

Earlier Friday, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees vowed on Friday to avenge the killing of the group's leader, killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Thursday and promised "there will be no Jews left in Palestine."

"The Palestinian resistance will plant death everywhere the Jews go. We will bring death to the streets of Tel Aviv and all the cities of the Zionist enemy until Islam prevails," Mohammad Abu Al, nicknamed Abu Abir, told Ynet.

The spokesman admitted the assassination dealt a blow to the group as Samhadana masterminded most attacks carried out over the last decade.

Reuters contributed to this report