The terrorists in Gaza kill and maim civilians with impunity. The media rarely pick up the story, and most often bury items like these deep within stories.
In another incident, Hamas gunmen set fire to an 11-story apartment building housing Fatah lawmaker Nema Sheik Ali, the wife of the head of Preventive Security. Witnesses said the gunmen broke into her apartment and struck her and two of her children with their weapons. One of the children is 14 years old; the age of the other wasn’t immediately known.
“They came, they broke the door,” she said. “They assaulted my children and they pushed me aside, then they torched the apartment.”
Shadi al-Kashir, a building resident, said his father, wife, five children and two sisters had been trapped inside by smoke in the halls and gunbattles raging in the entranceway. “They tried to send ambulances, but the ambulances came under fire,” he said. They later managed to escape.
A group of about 200 Palestinians marched in central Gaza City, waving Palestinian flags and demanding an end to the fighting. Dozens of masked gunmen used the cover of the demonstration to improve their positions on the street, and then opened fire on the demonstrators, wounding one in the leg. The rest fled.
Earlier Wednesday, Hamas gunmen fired mortars and pipe bombs at the home of Fatah security chief Rashid Abu Shbak before storming it and killing six bodyguards, Palestinians security and medical officials said. Abu Shbak and his family were not home at the time.
Abdel Hakim Awad, a Fatah spokesman, angrily accused Hamas’ leadership of the attack, charging that the Islamist group “wanted to turn Gaza into a new Somalia or Darfur.”
Fighting also raged close to President Mahmoud Abbas’ heavily guarded compound, which was also targeted by Hamas mortar fire overnight, and the bodies of two Fatah gunmen were sprawled on the street nearby. Abbas, a moderate from Fatah, was not present.
More than 30 journalists from different news agencies were holed up at the Gaza offices of Al-Jazeera television, unable to venture outside because of heavy fighting next to the building.
“We are in fact, without exaggeration, in grave danger,” said Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh, his words interrupted by sounds of gunfire.
There also isn’t much recognition that a group of international journalists are currently trapped in a building in Gaza while Hamas and Fatah shoot it out all around the building. So far, this report by an AP reporter trapped in the building has been picked up on only 55 news sites. And look: More war crimes going unnoticed:
My building is across from a Palestinian government complex, and both sides are fighting for control of the area.
Gunmen are taking over rooftops. My apartment is on the top floor of a five-story building and some Fatah fighters tried to force their way in Wednesday morning so they could shoot from my windows, overlooking the government compound. I had an argument with them, and they left.
There have been street battles between Hamas and Fatah before, but there are dangerous new elements this time. Now they are arresting or even shooting people for the way they look. If you have a beard, you might be arrested by Fatah security for looking Islamic. If you have a chain around your neck or on your arm, Hamas gunmen might shoot you because you look secular.
Fighting from civilian areas. Arresting and shooting people on no cause.
If it does get noticed, cue the blame-Israel chorus.
Arab gunmen murdering civilians. Hoodathunkit?
This is just par for the course. All the brave jihadis in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan, the “resisters to the occupiers” striking Israel, they are all doing the same things these scum in Gaza do. Often enough they are the same people. Now that it’s their ox being gored the Palis who applauded the terror elsewhere don’t seem to like it. Funny that.
Take a taste of your own vile medicine Arabs, and see how you like it.