Play it Again, Qassam
Play it Again, Qassam
First a kindergarten, now a house:
Two Kassam rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip Wednesday afternoon, one landing in an empty house in Moshav Netiv Ha’asara.
There were no reports of casualties but the house was damaged.
In a related story, as they say:
Egyptian police uncovered on Wednesday two tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
On Tuesday, Egyptian intelligence claimed that Palestinians in Gaza trained the perpetrators of the terrorists who bombed Dahab in April.
Who’d a thunk those tunnels were two-way? And in more intra-Arab violence:
Masked Fatah gunmen appeared to be behind the kidnapping and shooting of three Hamas operatives in Gaza early Wednesday, Hamas officials said, although an investigation is ongoing.
The gunmen snatched the Hamas members as they were leaving a Gaza mosque after morning prayers, a Hamas official said, and then threw them into a car, where they were beat and shot in the legs and the stomach.
The gunmen then left the wounded men at a gas station in Khan Younis. Hospital officials reported the Hamas members in moderate condition. One later died of his wounds.
The kidnapping was the latest violent incident between Hamas and Fatah, who have been battling for control of Palestinian security forces since Hamas ousted Fatah from power in a January parliamentary election.
The power struggle has turned violent at times, especially in the Gaza Strip where at least 8 people, one of them a civilian, have been killed in the internal strife.
Arab allies of the Palestinian Authority have sought refuge from the emerging civil war in the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian and Jordanian diplomats have avoided traveling in much of the Gaza Strip to avoid being a target in battles between Fatah and Hamas. As part of their war, both militias, supported by rival PA security agencies, have established roadblocks and ambushed each other’s patrols.
“Most of the diplomats and military advisers of Egypt and Jordan have left the Gaza Strip or remain indoors,” a diplomatic source said. “They have been under orders from their governments to do everything they can to avoid becoming a target.”
On Monday, the driver of Jordan’s envoy in the Gaza Strip was killed in a gun battle between Hamas fighters and PA police officers aligned with Fatah. The shootout took place near the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City.
I don’t hate these people (hate is such a strong word, don’t you think?); I just dislike them very much.