Bloodthirsty Liberal

You have to admire their efforts:

Officials from the ruling Hamas movement and the rival Fatah party have agreed to work together to avoid armed clashes in the Gaza Strip Saturday, they said.

The agreement not to deploy any armed men to avert possible clashes came at a meeting in Gaza City late Friday, sources said.

The interior minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian government earlier Friday warned the mainstream security services, loyal to the rival Fatah party, not to create trouble as apparently threatened.

One day at a time, baby, one day at a time.

Still, what do you do with all that pent up rage? Start smoking? This is healthier:

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Field Update
31 October 2006

PCHR’s preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 15:10 on Monday, 30 October 2006, four gunmen in a yellow car intercepted another car carrying two internationals and their Palestinian assistant. The internationals were Robert Vila, a 30-year old Spaniard, and Celine Gagne, a 26-year old Frenchwoman. Both work for the Cooperation Assembly for Peace. The incident took place near Abu Holi junction on Salah El-Deen Road north of Khan Yunis.

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At approximately 22:50 in the evening of the same day, the kidnappers released Vila after contacts with the Preventive Security Apparatus and a Palestinian faction. PCHR’s fieldworker learned that the kidnappers abducted Vila after a visit to the Red Crescent Society in Khan Yunis. They demanded that 15 people be hired in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

In another incident on 24 October 2006, a Spanish journalist was kidnapped. PCHR’s preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 7:00 on that day, masked gunmen in a white vehicle kidnapped Emilio Morenatti, a Spanish photographer working for Associated Press (AP). The incident took place in front of his home in Haitham Building near Palestine Hotel in Gaza City. He was released at 22:30 in the same evening without any indication of the motive or demands of the kidnappers.

With these two kidnappings, the number of such crimes against internationals in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) over the past two years increased to 23 crimes targeting 48 internationals.

This is not:

A Kassam rocket was fired from northern Gaza on Tuesday, landing in an open field in the western Negev. In addition, Palestinian gunmen fired three mortar rounds at IDF troops operating in Gaza.

In both incidents there were no casualties or damage to property.

Not to mention this:

Israeli forces killed two Hamas gunmen in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in the latest fighting between the sides as Israel presses on with its military offensive in the coastal area, Palestinian officials and the army said.

The troops killed the gunmen in the heat of a battle in Khouza, a village east of the Khan Yunis refugee camp that borders Israel, Palestinian security officials and Hamas sources said. Three other Palestinians have been wounded in the fighting, which is ongoing, the officials said.