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.
Meanwhile the death toll in Lebanon is into the hundreds, the number of refugees from the camps into the thousands. No doubt behind the scenes plans are being laid for an urgent Security Council meeting calling for drastic action.
The drastic action that will be called for is condemning Israel for not immediately accepting all the refugees.
But don’t you see, this is all caused by the stress of being occupied. If we just took down the walls and gave them all right of return, then they’d all settle down and get jobs and go to college and be sensible and peace-loving, just like they were before 1967. It’s sooooo obvious…
personally I think the “truce” that the media loves to yap about it simply the delay between ejecting a spent magazine and loading another.
Let’s wish them both the best of luck.
chsw
I don’t know how religious any of you guys are, but in the haftarah for Parshat Eikev, Yeshayahu says that at the time of the redemption, Hashem “will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood”.
Sound familiar?
Hshem also said that in the time of Joshua he would not let the Jews conquer the Land right away, since if all of the Canaanites were driven out at once the beasts of the field would multiply too rapidly.
Interesting context for the fatwa against Muslim emigration from Israel, which is skyrocketing.
So, let’s see: a ruinous economy and security situation has the Pals beating a path to the doors, and the ones that are left are killing each other in an increasingly vicious orgy of internecine conflict.
I would say things are looking up. All the Israelis need to do is sit back and watch. If we’re lucky, the Pals will solve the “Palestinian problem” all by themselves.
So wait, Ephraim, what you’re saying is: The Pals are going to be zombies?
Eww.
One less Hamas or Fatah killer is one less rat.
Nice to see Palestinian Arabs running from their “beloved homeland” due to the nihilistic violence of the terrorists whom they have applauded and supported for so many years. Chickens coming home to roost, eh Mahmoud? I’ve long said that if the Palis can’t live at peace with Jewish neighbors they should go find some neighbors with whom they can live at peace. That might be difficult, since their “Arab Brothers” despise them and treat them worse than the Israelis do. For their “Arab Brothers” the Palis are fit only for cannon fodder, or semtex fodder nowadays.
Yes indeed, chickens coming home to roost.