Report: Hamas threatens more kidnappings

Kidnappings like the abduction "done four months ago" of Gilad Shalit would go on, the report said, as part of "a bid to swap them for Palestinian detainees languishing in occupation dungeons."

Referring to an earlier threat of launching a third intifada, Mashaal told Egyptian TV "that it was not a threat but rather an explanation that a third intifada might be the Palestinian people's option if their suffering persisted," the report added.

Fatah's armed wing was also reported to "call on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to issue urgent orders to the PA security forces deployed along the borders of the Gaza Strip? To confront the IOF soldiers and not to block the resistance fighters."