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crowd is seen observing the remains of the burned out destroyed car of Qassam top leader Ahmed Ja'abari after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, 14 November 2012. Ahmed Ja'abari was killed when the car in which he was driving was hit in an Israeli air strike. Another militant, whose identity was not immediately known, was killed alongside him. His death came after four days of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which saw militants in the Strip launch over 120 rockets at southern Israel, and the Israeli Air Force hit 15 targets in the enclave.  EPA/ALI ALI

Cairo - Egypt recalled its ambassador from Israel on Wednesday after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed Hamas’s top military commander and at least six other Palestinians, presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said.

“President Mohamed Mursi has followed the Israeli brutal assault in which a number of martyrs and sons of the Palestinian people were killed,” Yasser Ali said in a statement on television and on his Facebook website.

“On this basis he has recalled the Egyptian ambassador from Israel; has ordered the Egyptian representative at the United Nations to call for an emergency meeting at the Security Council ... and summoned the Israeli ambassador in Egypt in protest over the assault,” the statement added.

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