Something tells me that fabled “red line” has been crossed. The war has reached Ismail Haniyeh’s house. Too bad it didn’t reach Haniyeh.
Clashes re-erupted in Gaza early Monday when gunmen opened fire in the house of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack on Haniyeh’s house in the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City. It was the first time in a month of infighting that Haniyeh was an apparent target, underlining an escalation in tactics by the warring sides.
At least three Palestinians were killed in gun battles between Fatah and Hamas combatants in the Gaza Strip Sunday.
Among the casualties was the imam of a Hamas-affiliated mosque, who was executed by Fatah gunmen.
Earlier Palestinian sources reported that a member of Fatah’s Force 17 plummeted to his death Sunday after being thrown by Hamas gunmen from the 15th floor of a Gaza City high-rise.
The AP titles their piece on the fighting, “Grisly Palestinian Infighting Flares.” Yeah, “infighting.” Like it’s the two most popular girls in school running for Homecoming Queen, not, say, the murder of civilians who get in the way of murdering your enemy.
Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings.
I’m wondering if Hamas has decided to start saving bullets by throwing Fatah terrorists off buildings instead. But no, probably not. It’s just another war crime that Amnesty International neglects to include in their report on the terrortories, since Israel isn’t the one doing the killing. Witness:
In an especially grisly incident, Hamas militants kidnapped an officer in a Fatah-linked security force, took him to the roof of a 15-story apartment building and threw him off. Mohammed Sweirki, 25, from the Presidential Guard of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, was killed in the plunge.
That set off skirmishes through the city, including gun battles and shelling. Fatah militants surrounded the house of a Hamas mosque preacher and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the four-story building. They then entered, shooting at preacher Mohammed al-Rifati, 40, and taking him away. Later, his body was brought to a hospital. Hamas pledged revenge.
Let’s see, throwing a man off a building, firing at a mosque, murdering a religious man. Where is the world outrage that we saw during the siege of the Church of the Nativity, when dozens of terrorists held the Christian priests captive while the IDF surrounded the church?
Oh, wait. I keep forgetting. When Israel or America does it, it’s a war crime. When Hamas or Fatah does it, it’s “infighting.”
Once again, we here at Yourish.com are rooting for both Hamas and Fatah to win. Kill as many of each other as you can, please. Leave no rival terrorist alive! The thanks of a grateful nation will be yours. The nation will be Israel, but hey—trust me, they’ll be grateful.