11:40PM: Here’s a story I just found, which should indicate to you the depravity of these terrorists.
Jamal Abu Jadian, a top Fatah commander, fled his home in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening dressed as a woman to avoid dozens of Hamas militiamen who had attacked it. He and several members of his family and bodyguards were lightly wounded.But when Abu Jadian arrived at a hospital a few hundred meters away from his house, he was discovered by a group of Hamas gunmen, who took turns shooting him in the head with automatic rifles.“They literally blew his head off with more than 40 bullets,” said a doctor at Kamal Udwan Hospital.
No sireee. We are dealing with evil here. They enjoy killing.
11:20PM: Hamas has denied reports of a Gaza truce, saying the deal was only that violence should end.
U.S. troubled by reports of widespread voter fraud, coercion in Egyptian elections (AP)
Mubarak`s ruling party wins 97% of seats in Egypt upper house elections (AP)
Mubarak wins 97% (about the same percentage that Syria’s Assad recently won), so I’m willing to bet the reports of fraud and coercion are 100% true.
11:00PM: Back to Lebanon….and Israellycool friend and Lebanese blogger Charles writes that he was at Nejmeh when the bomb exploded, and is incredibly shaken, especially after human body parts landed next to him.
This is what he posted on his blog:
This is the closest I’ve been.
I was 50m from this attack.
We were in a cafe next to Luna Park enjoying the late afternoon next to the sea after an intense day.
Children were playing on the equipment under the setting sun. Mothers were holding their babies. Old men were smoking argile.
BOOM!!!
Everyone hit the floor, except the group of European tourists who just looked surprised. Waiters dived under the tables. Mother grabbed their crying babies.
Human flesh landed in the children’s play area.
We didn’t know what happened. All I knew was that a bomb went off in the passageway between the Nejmeh Football Club and the Luna Park, a children’s amusement park on the Mediterranean coast.
We knew there had to be casualties.
The Army was IMMEDIATELY on the scene. At least two squads from the nearby Army base immediately secured the area. They came down, and started cordoning off the area. Everyone in the nearby beach areas and sporting clubs were asked to move their vehicles. There was great concern another bomb would go off.
Within minutes, the police were there.
I was on the scene for a number of the bombs in 2005, including Hariri’s assassination. It took the Army, at least, half an hour to arrive. This time, the security forces were amazingly professional. I was astounded. They were outstanding.
We soon found out that 14 March Parliamentary Representative Walid Eido, his son, his two bodyguards, and at least two bystanders were killed.
I was horrified that they had planted a bomb next to a children’s park. We knew there had to be bystanders killed, but we thought it was just another random bombing.
10:42PM: Fatah leader/palestinian President Abbas spoke with Hamas leader/palestinian Prime Minister Haniyeh tonight, and both reportedly agreed to end the fighting. Easier said than done.
10:40PM: Hamas has offered Fatah a ceasefire on condition that Hamas leader/palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will command all of the palestinian security/terror services.
“[Egyptian mediators] received the proposal and promised to present it to [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud] Abbas. The ball is now in [his] court. Hamas does not set impossible conditions, and if there are serious intentions to resolve the crisis, we will be ready to reciprocate,” said Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman.
8:25PM: From the They’re Anti-Israel, Not Anti-Semitic Department:
Among yesterday’s dead was a 14-year-old boy and three women, all killed in a Hamas attack on a Fatah security officer’s home.
“They’re firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We’re not Jews,” the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a Fatah commander, pleaded during a live telephone conversation with a Palestinian radio station.
Minutes later both men were dragged into the streets and riddled with bullets.
8:20PM: Ha’aretz is reporting that 2 female members of a Fatah-allied clan have been shot and killed by Hamas.
8:15PM: Lawhawk brings to our attention this photo, which seems to show the middle terrorist taking aim at the photographer (click to enlarge).
I ssy this by way of introduction to the following: After accepting weapons from Israel, Fatah are blaming Israel for their fighting with Hamas.
The Fatah movement on Wednesday accused Israel of propelling the Palestinians into the current state of security chaos.Spokesperson for the movement in the West Bank, Dr. Jamal Nazzal, told the Italian Radiotelevisione Italiana, known as RAI, “Israel paved the way for the growth of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, by destroying the PA [Palestinian Authority] departments and security forces’ buildings between 2000 and the election to power of Hamas.”
Nazzal also accused Israel of “following a policy which allows Hamas to prevail and that will close the door for peace, the peace which both Hamas and Israel are scared of.”
He urged the international community exert pressure on Israel to cease its “bloody” interference in Palestinian affairs.
“Israel has turned the situation on its head, by ignoring arms-smuggling into Gaza, which is aimed to weaken the PA, and combating the idea of peace,” said Nazzal.
Nazzal also stated that “Israel has understood since the beginning that the best way to prevent the Palestinians from asserting control on the ground is to weaken the security bodies.”
I wonder who could be behind it.
Meanwhile, the carnage continues in the palestinian territories. Fierce Fatah-Hamas clashes are taking place in Gaza over the last two Fatah strongholds in the city. According to Ynetnews, Hamas sources said they are “purifying” these places of the “Fatah traitors”, and renaming every street with “Islamic names”.
Today’s death toll so far: At least 24 palestinians.
One of the women, a 30-year-old mother of four, requested the Israeli authorities’ permission to travel to Ramallah, falsely claiming she needed medical care. Her aunt, a 39-year-old mother of eight who is also currently pregnant, was supposed to accompany her to the fabricated treatment in Ramallah.
The Shin Bet maintains that the two were due to meet with an Islamic Jihad militant in Ramallah, who was supposed to give them explosive belts and take them to the the locations of the planned attacks.Bear this is mind next time palestinian women complain of undergoing security checks at checkpoints (which are conducted in a sensitive manner).
11:25PM: Fatah gunmen have attacked a number of Hamas institutions in Nablus, shooting some Hamasholes for good measure.
If this isn’t a civil war, I don’t know what is.
11:12PM: Fatah have declared that their ministers will suspend their participation in the unity government until this latest round of fighting stops. It’s amazing that they would even consider continuing in this unity government even after the fighting stops. But then again, when it comes to the palestinians, I am not really surprised by anything anymore.
10:58PM: 3 more palestinians dead, bringing the death toll since Monday to around 50.
10:53PM: Since my last update, Hamas terrorists captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied terrorists, the last step in Hamas’ takeover of the northern Gaza Strip. At least 20 Hamas fatalities have been reported in the clash, and dozens more people wounded.
8:40PM: Hamas are claiming that its forces have captured Fatah security headquarters in northern Gaza.
Might be true, might not. The thing is, both Hamas and Fatah are adept at lying, so one never really knows until verified by other sources.
8:27PM: 2 more Hamasholes down.
8:05PM: PA negotiator Saab Erekat has told CNN that the Gaza violence between Hamas and Fatah is the “lowest point in Palestinian history.” Oh, I don’t know. I think the palestinians have a wealth of low points in their history to choose from.
7:55PM: Hamas claim that they still have control of the TV station.
