The typical Palestinian way to end internal strife is to attack Israel. Like clockwork, here come the mortars.
Three mortar shells struck the western Negev late Saturday night, causing neither damage nor injury.
The shelling come amid fears that Palestinian infighting in the Gaza Strip would spark renewed rocket attacks against Israel.
But it looks like the battle is over, and Fatah lost again. Although they did take out a couple of Hamassholes (as Lair calls them) before giving up.
Hamas security forces asserted control in a Gaza stronghold of political rival Fatah on Saturday, following a day of battles with mortars and machine guns, ending with the surrender of the Fatah-linked Hilles clan.
Four Hamas gunmen and two members of the Hilles clan were killed and at least 80 others were injured, including one critically, during the clashes. Among those injured were 12 children and a woman.
Sources in Gaza said following the clashes that Hamas gunmen fired mortars at Palestinians who were trying to escape to the Gaza-Israel border fence, near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. Other Gazans turned themselves in to Hamas forces, the sources said.
Please note that there will be no outraged statements by the UN SecGen, or any other politician, over the fighting in Gaza, nor the fact that children have been wounded and killed. Because once again, Israel didn’t do it, so it doesn’t count.
Meantime, those Fatah clan members who headed for Israel? They got in.
Several dozen Fatah members who fled Gaza City following Hamas’ raid on a stronghold of the Hilles clan were allowed to enter Israel through the Nahal Oz terminal after laying down their arms and undergoing an initial interrogation.
Three Palestinians who suffered injuries during the infighting were taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba for treatment. One of the Palestinians was reportedly in serious condition, while the other two sustained modrate and light wounds. Seven more Palestinians were taken to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon; six of them were listed in serious condition and another suffered moderate wounds.
Remember that the next time the Palis and their pals try to tell you how bigoted and awful the Israelis really are. Israel: The civilized country. Gaza: Still living in the Middle Ages. The proof is out there.
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba? Is that the one that treated an Arab woman from Gaza for burns, then two weeks being released she came back intending to blow up the ER facility there with a suicide bomb?
Palis running to Israel from other Arabs doing “Internal housekeeping”, as the IRA used to call it, is an old story. As far back as 1970 I can remember stories about Palis running to Israel when the Jordanians, for example, wanted to give them a 9mm sized headache. That’s the real Arab Brotherhood for you.