There Must Be Some Way Outta Here
Alarmed by the growing number of Palestinians who are emigrating from the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority’s mufti has issued a fatwa [religious decree] forbidding Muslims to leave.
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“Every day we hear about hundreds of Palestinians who file requests for emigration with different consulates and diplomatic missions,” the sources said.
“According to our statistics, there are at least 45,000 emigration applications being reviewed by different countries.”
The sources said most of the applicants were young men seeking work abroad. They said the majority of them wanted to move to the US, EU and Canada.
Funny how they never want to go to Saudi Arabia or Iran. But I don’t see what we have to worry about from thousands of unemployed you Palestinian men:
Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 injured in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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Hamas said the fighting started on Saturday night when Fatah gunmen shot dead a local Hamas commander in Rafah.
Fatah said the fighting started when Hamas used rocket-propelled grenades and explosives to destroy the homes of two Fatah militants.
An estimated 616 Palestinians have been killed in factional fighting since Hamas defeated Fatah in elections in January 2006, a leading Palestinian rights group said in a report on Wednesday.
Why would anyone want to leave?