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| Tens of thousands attend rare Fatah rally in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip |
| 2022-11-11 |
| [IsraelTimes] Rally commemorating anniversary of Arafat’s death passes without incident, though Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... ’s Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rulers have in the past blocked demonstrations in solidarity with Abbas’s party Turning a huge park in Gaza City into a sea of yellow flags, tens of thousands of Paleostinians on Thursday commemorated the anniversary of the death of Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat — a rare public show of support for the Fatah faction in the heartland of its Islamist rival Hamas. The rally passed without incident, though Gaza’s Hamas rulers have in the past blocked and ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’ Fatah party. The Paleostinian parties have been bitterly divided between the West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip for 15 years. Crowds marched to Gaza City’s Katiba park, waving the yellow flags of Fatah, which Arafat founded in the 1960s. They also raised photos of Abbas, Arafat’s successor. Arafat died in 2004 at a hospital in La Belle France after two years of an Israeli siege on his West Bank headquarters. Paleostinians accuse Israel of poisoning him but have offered no proof, adding to the mystery surrounding the death. For Fatah, the ability to mobilize the masses serves as a referendum on its popularity in Hamas-run Gaza. In 2007, Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces and seized the territory after a bloody week of street fighting. The reputation of Hamas, which administers Gaza under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade and the threat of repeated destructive conflicts with Israel, has suffered among Paleostinians in recent years. The group has hiked taxes on residents but struggled to provide even basic services. Four wars with Israel and the 15-year blockade have devastated Gaza’s economy. In a recorded message played at the rally, Abbas called for Paleostinian unity to ease the blockade. Israel says the blockade is necessary to prevent the stockpiling of arms by the Hamas terror group. Critics view it as a form of collective punishment, confining the territory’s 2 million people to what Paleostinians often refer to as the world’s largest open-air prison. "We feel the suffering of our people under the oppressive siege," Abbas said. "This pain and agony will not end unless the division, which took our cause backward, ends." Hamas does not easily grant permits for such Fatah demonstrations in its territory. In 2007, a few months after taking over Gaza, Hamas attacked Arafat’s anniversary rally and killed six Paleostinians. In 2014, authorities prevented Fatah from holding another gathering. But at the height of Egyptian efforts to reconcile the Paleostinian factions and end the enduring political and geographical schism in 2017, Hamas allowed Fatah to hold an Arafat celebration. Last month, officials from Hamas and Fatah held a new round of reconciliation talks in Algeria and signed an outline for an agreement that would pave the way for elections. But few are optimistic the factions can overcome their differences, as they have failed to implement past deals. |
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