From Explosive-Filled Tunnels Targeting Abbas Found in Gaza: Tunnels filled with explosive devices were discovered under Salahaddin Street in Gaza City, Palestinian security sources announced Wednesday. According to these sources, the explosives were targeting Mahmoud Abbas in anticipation of future visits to Gaza. After Palestinian television networks showed footage of the tunnels and...
Hamas Gunmen Hunt Down Fatah Rivals in Gaza
From Hamas Gunmen Hunt Down Fatah Rivals in Gaza: Security officers loyal to Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction were fleeing Gaza City as Islamist Hamas death squads roamed the streets. After the battles, Hamas men hunted down their foes, blowing up their houses, witnesses said. One Fatah member, who called himself Ahmed, said Hamas gunmen had killed eight of his friends: “I escaped by a...
Hamas Executes Fatah Men as Their Wives and Children Watch
From Hamas Executes Fatah Men as Their Wives and Children Watch: A witness named Amjad said men were killed as their wives and children watched. “They are executing them one by one,” Amjad said by telephone. “They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting.” Fatah officials said Hamas shot and killed seven of...
Palestinians may be crossing point of no return to national suicide
So what? Considering the “Palestinians” are from a manufactured entity and not from a real nation to begin with, what’s the loss? If they want to commit suicide, let’s not get in their way. From IMRA: May 15 is always a “black date” on the Palestinian calendar, representing the founding of Israel and the Nakba (or “catastrophe” in Arabic) of the...
UN: Internal Violence Killed 55 Palestinians, Injured 243 Last Week
From UN: Internal Violence Killed 55 Palestinians, Injured 243 Last Week: According to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued on Tuesday, 55 Palestinians have been killed and 243 injured during the last week as a result of internal violence. Since the beginning of 2007, more than 150 Palestinians have been killed as a result of factional violence and...
Reaping what they sow
Tsk. Tsk. Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip’s border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid. More than two dozen people, including the premier’s son, Abed, 27, were wounded in the fighting, deepening factional violence that has pushed...
Hamas Gunmen Open Fire on Fatah Demonstrators
Hamas gunmen opened fire on demonstrators from the rival Fatah movement in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding four people in the first factional violence following the fatal shooting of three children of a Fatah loyalist, officials said. The demonstration was organized to protest the deaths of the children, whose car was riddled with bullets as they were driven to school Monday morning...
Educated Palestinians Leaving PA
Driven by fear of civil war and increasingly bleak economic prospects, Palestinians are fleeing their violence-wracked neighborhoods in growing numbers. Many are skilled and educated, and are leaving behind an increasingly impoverished and fundamentalist society. The brain drain reverses a trend of the 1990s when, fueled by peace hopes, thousands of well-to-do Palestinians returned from the...