A senior Hamas leader said this morning the Palestinian militant group had no intention of attacking US targets following Israel's assassination of the Islamic faction's spiritual leader.
"It's not in our policy to target Americans or American interests," Hamas political leader Sayed Seyam said.
Hamas had vowed revenge against Israel for the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The United States is Israel's chief ally.
The State Department had told Americans that Hamas had threatened revenge on US interests after Yassin's death, telling them to leave the Gaza Strip and also advising against travel to Israel or the West Bank.
Mr Seyam said the travel warning was "misleading information" from a government that had blessed Yassin's killing.
The United States said it was "deeply troubled" by Sheikh Yassin's assassination outside a mosque in Gaza on Monday, but unlike many countries it did not condemn it