As McDonald's says "I am lovin' it".Forces loyal to Hamas appeared to consolidate their hold on northern Gaza and much of Gaza City today, with at least 12 more people wounded in continuing clashes between Palestinian factions.
"loyal" in timesspeak means part of.
What has been some of the worst internal Palestinian fighting in years ebbed overnight after the warring factions, Hamas and Fatah, met to try to arrange a cease-fire. But gun battles raged into today, and masked men continued to hold positions and operate checkpoints throughout Gaza City.
Ah, the old "ebbing" and a flowing. My vote is for Krakatoa-sized flowing.
Hamas forces appear to be in control of northern Gaza, bordering Israel, down through most of Gaza City, with Fatah forces concentrated around the government and security compounds of the Remal neighborhood, surrounding the main security headquarters, Saraya, and the presidential compound of Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, who is not in Gaza.
Ah, good news! Hamas is within range of 155mm shellfre. Crank up the M109, Ari!
Hamas fighters at checkpoints were stopping all cars to look for Fatah members or members of the security forces, said Tawfiq Abu Khoussa, a Fatah leader in Gaza City. He demanded that “Hamas remove all the checkpoints throughout the Gaza Strip but mainly in Gaza City.”
"My wife needs to go shopping, but there are bad gunnies out there".
Continuing detentions or kidnappings of fighters were reported, with Fatah accusing Hamas of detaining as many as 40 of its members or security officials at such roadblocks. Hamas forces have also been overrunning and sometimes destroying headquarters of the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security forces in northern Gaza.
Ohhhhhh, detentions. Oh, my. What will they do.
Few people ventured from their homes, and many stayed away from windows. On Friday, Wasi Kurdish, 20, was killed as he watched television when a bullet came through a window and hit him in the chest.
Life's a bitch in Arafatistan, but it's your country, paid for with your blood. I think this calls for "Dire Revenge™".
Ghada Abu Daoud, who works for the Gaza office of a Persian Gulf emirate, said: “Hamas is in control of the streets of Gaza City. It’s Hamas that seems to initiate every raid, and the number of Fatah wounded seems higher.”
Who cares? After all, both groups are Paleostinians, the lowest and most wretched "people" on the planet. Their sole problem is themselves, so knock yourselves out.
Ms. Daoud said in a telephone interview that she ventured out This morning in a car, but that masked men stopped her at a checkpoint and strongly suggested that she return home. “Everyone is wearing black,” she said. “But the Qassam brigades seem stronger than anyone.” The Qassam brigades are the military wing of Hamas, which also dominates a separate, parallel police force known as the Executive Force.
'parallel' police for a parallel world.
Dr. Jumaa al-Saqqa, a surgeon and spokesman for Al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest, said Hamas forces had taken over the hospital and were using it as a protected firing position. “We’re extremely depressed,” he said by telephone. “I’m afraid to walk to my office in the hospital. Even in my apartment I’m afraid of a bullet coming through the window.”
So fucking typical of the paleos. They take over a palestinian Hospital and make it a fort. As Charles Johnson points out: "What a worthy people. Let's give them a country", sarcastically of course.
Dr. Saqqa said that blood supplies were low, and that given the street fighting and what he called the “shame” of the internal fighting, few Gazans were going out to give blood. “People aren’t willing to give blood for this internal fighting,” he said.
...... (speechless)
Abed Salaam Shihada, a Gazan documentary maker, said: “One prisoner is punishing another. But Hamas feels itself under real threat; it’s defending itself.”
LOLOL. Yeah, that's the problem, but the prison you are in wasn't made by the Joooos. It was created by a Arab who some mistakenly call a "prophet".
Mr. Shihada suggested that with the international boycott on Hamas and the increased pressure from the United States, including the prospect of $86.4 million in aid and training to Fatah forces loyal to Mr. Abbas, Hamas is asserting its presence in Gaza. “For them it’s a battle for existence,” he said.
"All they want to do is kill Jooos and destroy Israel and who can argue with that except those damn fatah punks."
Hamas sharply criticized the meeting of major countries involved in Middle East diplomacy on Friday in Washington. The meeting of the Quartet — the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations — expressed concern about the violence and pressed for a meeting soon of Mr. Abbas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to find a clearer “political horizon” toward peace. But the group insisted that it would not deal with Hamas until it recognized Israel, forswore violence and accepted previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
LOL. As if. Hamas is trying to redeem the Paleos lost 'honor' by losing the 3rd holiest site in mohammedism and earning the scores of all the arabs. Hamas would sooner all die rather than live with the Jooos in Israel (we can always hope!).
Ahmed Youssef, an adviser to the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya, who is a member of Hamas, said the meeting produced nothing positive. He criticized Germany, as the current president of the European Union, for failing to end the boycott of Hamas.
"We need money for guns too!"
A small protest against the internal bloodletting was called today in Unknown Soldiers Square in Gaza City, near the Parliament building, but few Gazans felt safe to venture out to join it, residents said. Scores had come in previous days, but only 20 or so on Saturday.
How does one protest the actions of one's self? Only the paleos can achieve this level of assholedom.
The United Nations issued a statement today deploring the violence on behalf of the many agencies that work in Gaza to provide food, education and medical care to refugees and
Heh. He said "grave". Heh. Let's hope so!
United Nations schools did not reopen today after a vacation, leaving more than 200,000 students at home.
How will they learn to hate Jooos if the UN isn't there to teach them?
Mr. Abbas and the
Bribetime!
Mr. Haniya and other
How? Through Israel?
Arab countries are
Why would they think that? LOLOL.
At least 17 people, mostly fighters, were killed Friday, and six others on Thursday. The latest clash between Hamas and Fatah, breaking yet another cease-fire, began when Hamas forces attacked a convoy of trucks from Egypt. Hamas said the trucks were full of weapons and military equipment. A spokesman for the Executive Force, Islam Shahwan, said Saturday that the containers included Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition, flak jackets and helmets intended for Fatah forces in Gaza. Fatah spokesmen say the trucks contained tents and medical equipment.
Fatah also said that caches of weapons were at the Islamic University, which is aligned with Hamas, and that it had captured some Iranian weapons experts there. But there has been nothing to back up these charges and no release of documentary evidence, and most experts regard the Iranian charge in particular as Fatah propaganda. Hamas has provided no evidence that the trucks were full of weapons.