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| Hamas says Palestinian Authority fomenting Gaza violence |
| 2015-03-15 |
| [IsaelTmes] As reconciliation flounders, terror group says Ramallah directing operatives to use bombs, shootings and car burnings to destabilize Strip The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-held interior ministry in the Gazoo Strip on Saturday accused security forces reporting to the rival Paleostinian Authority of being behind a wave of violence in the coastal enclave. Spokesman Iyad al-Bozum accused "members of the former security establishment in Gazoo" of "exploiting the difficult conditions, especially since the last war, to spread chaos and confusion with kabooms, car burnings and shootings". The war to which he referred was last summer's conflict with Israel. Paleostinian Authority security forces were ousted from Gazoo in 2007 by fighters from the Islamist Hamas movement's armed wing. Bozum did not elaborate, but kabooms have targeted vehicles used by Hamas in recent months, as well as some owned by members of PA president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's Fatah party. He told a news conference investigations had shown the incidents were "the result of plans by security chiefs in Ramallah" -- the headquarters of the PA in the West Bank. Bozum said they were aimed at "spreading chaos in Gazoo in order to cover up the government's failure and absolve (Abbas) from any responsibility." Bozum told news hounds several suspects have been locked away Please don't kill me! and played recordings he said were of them, their voices distorted and images blurred. Bozum said they were members of the PA security services in Gazoo before 2007 claiming to have carried out the attacks after receiving orders from Ramallah. WAFA, the official Paleostinian news agency, issued a statement from Fatah rejecting the accusation. It reported Fatah front man Osama al-Qawasmi as dismissing "Hamas lies that nobody believes because everyone knows it imposes its will by force." Qawasmi accused Hamas itself of "being behind kabooms and car burnings." Since last spring, when Hamas signed a reconciliation deal with the PA, it has accused the government created under the agreement of abandoning Gazoo. In return, the PA accuses Hamas of raising obstacles to the work of the government in the enclave, where it is reluctant to transfer power. Relations between Fatah and Hamas have been further strained since November, when a series of blasts targeted the homes of a dozen Fatah officials in Gazoo, causing damage but no casualties. |
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