TagsTagsRival Palestinian factions agree to end clashes. GAZA (Reuters) - The Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas group agreed on Wednesday to halt their clashes even as they headed for a showdown over Abbas’s threat to hold a referendum on a statehood proposal. Why does this story ...
“Gunmen” versus “media:” Gunmen storm Palestinian TV in challenge to Abbas. GAZA (Reuters) - Dozens of gunmen stormed into Palestine Television on Monday in a show of strength against President Mahmoud Abbas in the final hours before his deadline to Hamas to accept a manifesto implicitly recognizing Israel. Employees at a broadcasting ...
“Gunmen” versus “militants:” Five bystanders killed in Gaza shootings: medics. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed five bystanders in two separate shooting incidents in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as tension between rival factions in the impoverished territory deteriorated even further. In the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis gunmen killed ...
Palestinian death cults threaten banks. GAZA CITY (AFP) - The armed wing of Hamas and three other groups have threatened Palestinian banks if they do not transfer salaries to civil servants, who remain unpaid since late February. “The national banks were created to serve the interests of the Palestinian people. If their ...
“Security forces” vs. “military officials” in Gaza: Senior member of Hamas military wing hurt. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A senior member of Hamas’ military wing was shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting early Saturday, Palestinian security officials and Hamas officials said. The shooting came amid growing tensions between the ...
The euphemisms are flying fast and furious in this one: One dead as Fatah, Hamas clash. GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian security officer was killed and seven were wounded in clashes between rival Fatah and Hamas factions in Gaza on Thursday, underscoring growing tensions in the impoverished coastal strip. Earlier on Thursday, ...
The always charming Gulf Daily News of Bahrain headlines the story: Four killed by Zionists. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) But was it Zionists ... or their own stupidity? GAZA CITY: Four Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza yesterday as Israel fired dozens of artillery shells into the territory. Three men died and five ...
You can feel the Associated Press struggling and straining to come up with new euphemisms in this one: Officer killed in Palestinian fighting. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A gunfight between a Palestinian security force and a Hamas militia Thursday killed one police officer and wounded four others in the latest ...
Are they dissidents? Militants? Activists? Defectors? Disadvantaged youths resisting oppression? Only Allah knows for sure: Dissident Fatah militants join Hamas force. GAZA CITY (AFP) - More than 1,000 Fatah dissidents marched through Gaza City declaring their allegiance to a rival Hamas security force, two days after deadly clashes between the Palestinian ...
Following the attack earlier today by Fatah on a group of Hamas “activists” (killing one), a car bomb has taken out a top commander of Fatah’s “Preventive Security” force: Palestinian security chief killed in blast. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Gaza security chief loyal to the Palestinian president was killed ...
Looks like Hamas and Fatah are caught in the dreaded cycle of violence: Gaza gunmen kill one Hamas member, wound four. GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen in Gaza shot and killed one Hamas member and wounded four others from the Islamic militant group on Wednesday in renewed violence after Prime Minister Ismail ...
Deadly gunbattle erupts near Palestinian parliament. GAZA CITY (AFP) - One Jordanian was killed and at least seven Palestinians wounded as rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions erupted into heavy fighting near the parliament in Gaza. A driver at the Jordanian representation was killed in the running gunbattle close ...
Palestinians Foil 2nd Assassination Effort. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian security foiled the second attempt in two days to kill top commanders loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas in what officials in his Fatah party said Sunday was a “clear conspiracy” against their leaders. Fatah officials stopped short of openly accusing the ...
Bomb Wounds Palestinian Intelligence Chief. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian intelligence chief, Tareq Abu Rajab, an ally of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, was seriously wounded by a bomb packed with metal pellets at his headquarters Saturday in what security officials called an assassination attempt. There was no claim of responsibility, ...
Tensions rise after Hamas aide caught with cash. GAZA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian forces faced off at Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt on Friday after border guards loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas caught a Hamas official trying to smuggle in 639,000 euros ($804,000), authorities said. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh vowed during ...
Palestinian police, Hamas clash in Gaza. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian police fought gunbattles in Gaza City on Friday with a rival Hamas-led security force set up by the Islamist government in defiance of President Mahmoud Abbas. At least four people were wounded in the first fighting between the groups — two police, ...
As rival terrorist armies parade around with weapons: One elderly man wasn’t sure who was who. “Are you police or are you Hamas?” 65-year-old Abu Ahmed asked some gunmen. “We are the executive force,” a bearded young man from Hamas replied...
Civil war feared as Palestinian factions flex muscle. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Hamas and Fatah paramilitaries staged mass shows of strength amid warnings that the Islamists’ decision to deploy its gunmen on the streets of Gaza could trigger a Palestinian civil war.
Gunmen Loyal to Hamas Deployed Across Gaza. In the southern city of Khan Younis, about 40 members of the new force pulled up to the Education Ministry, jumped from their jeeps and fired in the air to break up a peaceful protest of recent college graduates who want teaching jobs. The ...
Several of the marvelous high-tech greenhouses in the Gaza town of Morag, which were bought for the Palestinians by Bill Gates, were destroyed by Palestinian “gunmen” on Friday. Several greenhouses belonging to the former settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip were destroyed over the weekend during an attempt by dozens ...