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January 03, 2007
Palestinian Civil War Watch - 7
After over a week of relative quiet the Palestinians are at it again. GAZA (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen killed a member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in Gaza on Wednesday and a car carrying Hamas security officers was ambushed, as simmering internal tensions threatened to erupt.I guess the Palestinian national unity government will have to be delayed a while longer. Meanwhile Palestinian Preventive Security wants all foreigners to leave Gaza. Presumably so the real civil war can begin without outside observers. Gaza City, 3 January - The Palestinian Preventive Security, headed by Mohammed Dahlan, ordered foreign nationals to leave the Gaza Strip because of an alleged threat of further abductions, following the kidnapping on Monday of a Peruvian press photographer, Jaime Razuri. Razuri, who worked for Agence France Press, has not yet been released.If the UNWRA was not distributing food. Some one would have to take that function over. Evidently Fatah (Mohammed Dahlan) thinks it has the upper hand for such an eventuality. The end result would be the use of food as a weapon. Support Fatah and eat. Support Hamas and look for another source of supply. Update: 03 Jan'07 2125z Kidnappings followed by violence. At least three elite Hamas operatives were wounded in violent clashes with Fatah operatives in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon, Israel Radio reported.So, in the spirit of the cycle of violence Fatah retaliates. Masked gunmen shot at the Palestinian Authority Religious Ministry building in the West Bank town of Tulkarm on Wednesday afternoon.Three Fatah operatives killed. Tensions are not expected to subside anytime soon in the Palestinian Authority as a particularly bloody day of infighting comes to an end in Gaza.I'm betting the violence will escalate. Later in the evening Palestinian sources reported that senior Fatah military wing leader Hassan al-Qasas, member narrowly escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen fired an RPG towards him and another senior group member. Fatah has blamed Hamas for the attack.Update: 04 Jan '07 1720z A total of five people were killed in Gaza Wednesday. GAZA (Reuters) - Clashes erupted between forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas government in Gaza on Wednesday, killing five people in the worst fighting since the rivals agreed a fragile truce two weeks ago.Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 01.03.07 at 08:53 AM |
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Food as a weapon, that's been used before, just not against other Muslims. Hmm, look for Iran to try and supply food, directly or indirectly, to Hamas. And see if the Israelis look the other way.
The Palestinian Civil War is a proxy war between Sunni and Shi'a Radical Islam, and keeping it going without resolution is in Israel's (and our) interests. When your enemies are fighting amongst themselves, don't distract them.