More news from Palestine:
– Nine Palestinians killed in Hamas-Fatah gunfights in Gaza. Hamas seems to have a ‘hit-list’ of Fatah officials it wants to kill. “The top name on the list is PA National Security Adviser Muhammad Dahlan, who is currently in Egypt.” The fighting has, reportedly, also spread to the West Bank.
– Human Rights Watch says that “armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, in some cases amounting to war crimes.” Both Hamas and Fatah have, for instance, executed captives, “killed people not involved in hostilities, and engaged in gun battles with one another inside and near Palestinian hospitals.”
Newsflash: terrorists tend to ignore human rights.
– Egypt has ordered Mashaal – who is the leader of Hamas but lives in Syria – to tell his fighters / terrorists to “hold their fire and desist from attacks on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ presidential compound.”
Egypts blames the fighting on external factors. Now, before certain people start blaming Israel – Egypt believes that Iran is behind it all. Same goes for Fatah: Fatah has accused both Syria and Iran of staging the civil war.
– CNN has more (including videos). CNN quotes a Palestinian official as saying: “If anybody thinks that we will be a winner out of this fire, I think they’re wrong. “If this fire continues, it will burn all of us. Nobody stands to gain anything.”
The Gospel of Matthew, 12:25-26:
Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. 26If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?
H/t Holly for quite some of the links.
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