'Volcano of revenge'

Updated: 2004-04-19 09:40

Palestinians reach to touch the body of the late Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi as he is carried through the streets during his funeral in Gaza City, Sunday, April 18, 2004. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on the car they were driving in Saturday in Gaza City. [AP]

Jordanian girl holds posters of Hamas leaders Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi and Shiekh Yassin during a demonstration in Amman April 18, 2004. Thousands of Jordanian mourners cried for vengeance on Sunday for the killing of Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in Gaza. [Reuters]

Protesters burn Israeli flag as they chant slogans 'Long live Global Intifada' during a demonstration against Israel in front of the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, after Abdelaziz Rantissi the leader of Hamas, was killed in an Israeli air strike. Hamas threatened a 'volcano of revenge' against Israel as some 200,000 Palestinians packed the streets of Gaza for the funeral of Rantissi. [AFP]