This is good news, reported in today's WorldNetDaily. Instead of attacking Israelis, the Palestinians' two terror groups are targeting each other.
Marking the worst internal Palestinian fighting since Hamas won January's Palestinian elections, gunmen from Hamas and the long-ruling Fatah organization duked it out in the streets of Gaza today, shooting and firing missiles at each other and kidnapping members of rival groups.
Three gunmen were killed and at least 10 people were injured.
Hamas sources told WND the fighting erupted this morning over control of large fields in Kfar Dorom, a Jewish community until Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip last summer. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed the fields as their own. Hamas announced plans to turn the area into a "military training zone." Gun battles were reported near the fields.
The two groups then traded accusations of kidnapping each other's members. Both denied the allegations. However, immediately after the denials, a wave of kidnappings reportedly took place with Hamas kidnapping three Fatah members and Fatah briefly capturing four Hamas gunmen.
Senior officials from both organizations brokered an exchange of captives, but gunfights reportedly broke out at the exchanges. After a Hamas man was wounded mortally, apparently by Fatah gunmen, Hamas shot two Fatah members in the street.
Hamas members today also fired a shoulder-held missile into a jeep with Palestinian Authority government license plates, killing two Fatah gunmen who also reportedly were members of the PA security forces.
Gun battles continued in several Gaza towns.
According to reports, large numbers of Palestinian children stayed home from school because parents were afraid to allow their kids to venture into the streets.
Let's hope that Fatah and Hamas will destroy each other, and then these parents--who actually want to keep their kids alive instead of wanting their kids to blow themselves up--can take over the PA territory and make it a decent place.
I can dream, can't I?
2 comments:
I share your hope Skye. May they destroy each other and allow those who want peace to live.
Yes, we can dream.
You both are definitely dreaming.
And the rest of the world (including, embarrassingly enough, us) is sending money to these clowns.
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