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The TruceFire is Off (The other one)
Article from PIC – Typical slanted verbiage but a nice photo of “the man of the hour” at link.

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, on Wednesday declared that the truce with Israeli occupation is no longer valid after its assassination of Islamic Jihad commander.
The Martyr parade will be at noon followed by a reception and luncheon. Participants are encouraged to bring their own refreshments and ammunition. As a reminder, Seething-Counselors will be available - but only until sundown.
Abu Obaida, the Qassam spokesman, said in a press release commenting on the assassination of Mahmoud Qassem, the commander of the Quds Brigades the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, said that the "Zionist enemy was trying to partition the country and trying to differentiate in the ceasefire between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This crime falls in line with a plan to liquidate Palestinian resistance in the West Bank in particular," he said, recalling that a long convoy of martyrs fell as a result of this scheme.
So there was a ceasfire…who knew?
He hoped that Palestinian resistance would unite in retaliating to "Zionist violations", and championed establishing a joint operations room after joint raids proved their success. Abu Obaida asserted that the Qassam Brigades were re-organizing their lines in the West Bank after sustaining painful strikes at the hands of IDF IOF.
The AMB, armed wing of Fatah faction, vowed to retaliate to the "cowardly" assassination of Qassem. It affirmed that the crime would not pass unpunished and described the truce with the IDF IOF as no longer relevant. Nafez Azzam, one of the Islamic Jihad leaders in the Strip, said that the "Zionist occupation does not want stability in the region".

Commenting on the same assassination, said that resistance is the only available option before the Palestinian people in face of the Israeli offensives. The Quds Brigades fired two "upgraded" Quds missiles at Sderot and Majdal in the 1948 occupied lands near the Strip as a preliminary retaliation to the assassination of Qassem. Ahmed Abul Reesh Brigades, an offshoot of the Fatah faction, said that it fired three homemade Amre-2 rockets at the Kissufim military outpost in response to IOF crimes in lines of the Palestinian people.
There were no reports of “glorious strikes”. That should be an indication that their rockets may need further “upgrading”.
Meanwhile, the IDF IOF troops did not cease their daily incursions in the West Bank cities and villages and stormed at dawn Wednesday Qabatia town east of Jenin city. Villagers told PIC correspondent that 15 army jeeps burst into the town's center and broke into a number of homes looking for "wanted" terrorists activists. They said that the IDF IOF soldiers arrested two brothers of the wanted terrorist activist Mahmoud Nazzal, commander of the Quds Brigades in the town, in an attempt to pressure him into giving himself up, and the brother of the terrorist detainee Yousef Nazzal, who is charged with leading the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades in the Jenin district.
Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-02-22
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