Except this one - Hamas being Hamas
Ran into this tidbit at
Glen's place -- from the
Jerusalem Post:
'Hamas torturing Fatah members in Gaza'
A Fatah official in Ramallah told the Post that at least 100 of his men had been killed or wounded as a result of the massive Hamas crackdown. Some had been brutally tortured, he added.
The official said that the perpetrators belonged to Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, and to the movement's Internal Security Force.
According to the official, at least three of the detainees had their eyes put out by their interrogators, who accused them of providing Israel with wartime information about the location of Hamas militiamen and officials.
A number of Hamas leaders and spokesmen have claimed in the past few days that Fatah members in the Gaza Strip had been spying on their movement and passing the information to Israel.
Two Hamas officials, Salah Bardaweel and Fawzi Barhoum, accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his "spies" in the Gaza Strip of tipping off the Israelis about the movements of slain Hamas interior minister Said Siam, who was killed in an IAF strike on his brother's home in Gaza City last week.
A bit more:
Eyewitnesses said that Hamas militiamen had turned a number of hospitals and schools into temporary detention centers where dozens of Fatah members and supporters were being held on suspicion of helping Israel during the war.
The eyewitnesses said that a children's hospital and a mental health center in Gaza City, as well as a number of school buildings in Khan Yunis and Rafah, were among the places that Hamas had turned into "torture centers."
Fatah and Hamas are the two political factions of the "palestinians".
Ham-Ass are brutal thugs and Fatah has learned that cooperating with Israel gets them a lot of business, medical and schooling, employment, etc... all while retaining their identifies as an independent peoples.
Hamas is operating out of the typical Arab 9th century cycle of shame and blame. They cannot accept the fact that their incompetent operations allowed Israel to come in with a few troops and destroy 90% of their infrastructure and kill their top commanders. No. There has to be some other reason so let's pick the closest one. Our fellow palestinians.
My guess is that the backstory is that Israel is planning to dig Hamas out of the Gaza Strip and then let Fatah take over. This would do a lot for the stability of everyone and the resumption of everyday life. Fatah are not barbarians.
More
here and
here.
Posted by DaveH at January 19, 2009 9:11 PM
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