They are also pretty adept at killing each other.
Twelve people, including a police officer and a young girl, were killed in clashes between de facto government security forces and members of the Dughmush clan in Gaza on Tuesday morning.
A fierce gunbattle broke out after security forces attempted to arrest three members of the family. Medical sources said that 12 people were killed, contradicing an earlier report from the police that only four were killed.
Islam Shahwan, spokesperson of the security forces in Gaza, said “The security campaign operated in the As-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City caused death of three wanted persons from the Dughmush family in addition to a policeman and a number of injuries.”
Shahwan said that the “wanted” individuals first refused to surrender. After this refusal, police stormed the hiding place. The aim had been to arrest the three.
Sources from police department confirmed that Jamil, Ibrahim and Sa’eb Doghmush were killed during the raid.
Twenty-two-year-old Sameh Mahmoud An-Naji, a member of the security forces, was killed, and an unknown number of others were injured.
Members of the Doghmush were reported to have been responsible for the kidnapping of BBC reporter Alan Johnston in 2007.
Meanwhile, amidst the carnage, we have some aspiring Oscar Wilde wannabes.
Eyewitnesses said that they saw body of a few months year old girl in Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza who appeared to have “lost her head.”
Cue laughter.
Update: Their Lebanese brethren are not to be upstaged.
Three Palestinians were killed in fighting between rival factions in a refugee camp in south Lebanon, security sources said on Tuesday. The clashes began late on Monday when gunmen shot dead a member of the Islamist Jund al-Sham militant group in Ain al-Hilweh camp, 35 kilometres south of the capital Beirut.
The killing triggered fierce exchanges of gunfire and grenades between the militants and Fatah gunmen in which a second Jund al-Sham member was killed.
Several hours after the fighting stopped, the father of a senior Fatah official was shot dead by unknown attackers.
