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In pictures: Hamas leader killed in Israeli air strike

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image captionCrowds surround the wreckage of the car in which Ahmed Jabari was travelling when he was killed.
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image captionPalestinian firefighters extinguish the blaze on the burning wreckage of Mr Jabari's car.
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image captionSmoke rises above Gaza City following the Israeli air strikes on Ahmed Jabari and other targets.
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image captionFurious Palestinians react to the assassinationm of Jabari. Hamas says the attack by Israeli has opened the "gates of hell".
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image captionMourners gathered at Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Shots were fired into the air outside the hospital.
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image captionAhmed Jabari (bottom right) posed with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal (bottom left) in Cairo last year after a prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel.

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