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| Haniyeh: Egypt wall wont break our will |
| 2010-02-09 |
| [Ma'an] De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Monday that the blockade and walls surrounding Gaza would not force Palestinians to submit to external control. He was speaking at a reception honoring the Interior Ministry in Gaza City. "Gaza is surrounded on three sides; north, east, and south; to make it raise a white flag," Haniyeh said, insisting that Egypt's underground wall would not have the desired effect. "The escalation of the blockade and the siege is aimed at bringing down the government and making the Palestinian people kneel," he added. First exposed by the Israeli daily Haaretz, Egypt has been constructing an underground steel wall to stem the flow of smuggling into the coastal enclave. First constructed to transport weapons, tunnels supply Palestinians with daily needs like food and fuel, necessitated by the ongoing military blockade. Haniyeh said his government "is entering its fourth year in the next few days, and no one can deny the accomplishments and successes it made in achievements in security, stability, preventing chaos and restoring the rights to the people through courts and the judiciary." In comparison to the West Bank's caretaker government, long accused of arresting members of Hamas for political reasons, he said, "We used force when it was necessary and in such cases it is limited." The Hamas leader's remarks on stability came amid controversy, however, over what human rights organizations have termed an escalating "state of security chaos and misuse of weapons" in Gaza. Last week, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights called on the Office of the Attorney General in Gaza to open investigations into a series of bombings and arsons in recent days. Even on Sunday, two unknown gunmen fired at a doctor in Gaza City while he was on his way to his work, the PCHR noted. He was wounded by three bullets to the leg and foot. Three days earlier, unknown militants abducted, tortured and shot at a man from Jabaliya refugee camp for reasons that were not clear. "PCHR strongly condemns these two attacks, which represent part of the state of security chaos and proliferation of weapons" plaguing the occupied Palestinian territories, and called upon the attorney general to swiftly apprehend the assailants and bring them to justice. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Isn't the Hyena making his macho comments from Lebanon? |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-02-09 15:13 |
| #4 Nor will primitive Paleo tools break through the wall. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-09 08:39 |
| #3 Do the Gaza folks ever wonder why nobody likes them? Or , for that matter, why nobody even respects them? And does it ever light the bulb dimly that everyone CLOSEST to then builds walls and sprays disinfectant on them when they stand there waiting to shake hands? Hello? |
| Posted by: Spanky 2010-02-09 08:36 |
| #2 Hanny's will can do as it pleases as long as its feet are in those deep and tight cement shoes. Tap dance for us, guyzos. Jump up and down. |
| Posted by: Humble Opinion 2010-02-09 08:31 |
| #1 If I were betting, my stake is on Egypt, Hanny-eh. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2010-02-09 06:54 |