Dancing In The Streets - Hamas Style
Hamas gunmen overran the last major stronghold of Fatah in Gaza City. After they seized the Fatah-controlled Preventive Security headquarters, they led captured Fatah men out into the street.
Hamas fighters overran Fatah-allied Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday, a key target in their battle to control the entire Gaza Strip, witnesses and a security agency official said.
One witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said Hamas gunmen were bringing Preventive Security men out of the building and executing them in the street.
Moments after the key security command was taken over, aides said that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave his first order to his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas rivals.
However, PA officials told the Jerusalem Post that no decision had yet been made and that a meeting between Abbas and his security officials had not yet reached its conclusion.
Nevertheless, the PA officials said that Abbas was expected to officially pull Fatah out of the PA unity government.
The coup de grace to Fatah sovereignty occurred a day after 35 Palestinians were killed in factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, Fatah operatives called on Abbas to order a move from defense to offense, "even at the price of thousands of dead Palestinians," to avoid losing the Gaza Strip to Hamas.
There are reports that Fatah members are demanding the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas for failing to order offensive operations on Hamas and keeping the Fatah forces on defense. (But hey, they are finally calling it a civil war here, too.)
There are reports that Fatah members are demanding the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas for failing to order offensive operations on Hamas and keeping the Fatah forces on defense. (But hey, they are finally calling it a civil war here, too.)
War, World news | Gaius Thursday, 14 June , 2007
By syn, Thursday, 14 June , 2007 @ 10:34 am
This must really wig out the BBC and their EU minions, they can’t place blame on Israel.