Hamas leaders are ``marked for death'' and Israel will hunt them relentlessly, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted as saying Sunday, after Israel botched an attempt to kill several top members of the Islamic militant group, including founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

Sharon himself reportedly gave the final go-ahead for an F-16 warplane to drop the 250-kilogram (550-pound) laser-guided bomb on a Gaza City apartment, where Israel says Yassin and other Hamas leaders and two top bombmakers had assembled Saturday.

Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper quoted the prime minister as saying Israel would not let up in its campaign against Hamas leaders. ``They are marked for death,'' Sharon said. ``We won't give them a moment's rest. We will continue to hunt them because they have only one objective.

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