This is the kind of news we heard regularly about a year ago:
Bomb blasts rocked a café and a Hamas politician’s home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago.
Hamas blamed unidentified gunmen for the bombings, suggesting the involvement of a Palestinian faction.
They have no trouble taking out their own innocent either, it seems.
Hamas security forces said the first bomb went off outside a popular cafe in the centre of Gaza City, killing a passerby whose identity was not immediately known.
A few minutes later, a second bomb exploded outside the house of Hamas politician and leader Marwan Abu Rass. Nobody was injured in that blast.
And Reuters had no problem lying about Hamas’ intentions.
But the truce has stoked some tensions between Palestinian factions as Hamas has sought to prevent other groups from firing cross-border rockets at Israel.
Interesting how Hamas couldn’t stop the rockets until they wanted to improve the deal for Shalit. Funny how Hamas said they couldn’t stop the rocket fire, and yet, it has stopped these past few days. Of course, it will resume as soon as they get their prisoners freed. They’re preparing for war.
Diskin briefed the MKs on the improved rockets produced by the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. He said that Islamic Jihad has independently produced rockets with a 19-kilometer range and that Shin Bet had intelligence indicating that military-grade rockets, whose range is longer, have been smuggled into the territory. Some of those rockets, Diskin added, can reach Ashdod, 30 kilometers away.
Militant groups in the Gaza Strip have also obtained military-grade mortars from Iran, with a range of approximately nine kilometers, Diskin said.
And Egypt is helping them.
He said there has been no drastic change in Egyptian efforts to prevent arms from being smuggled into the strip. Diskin confirmed, however, that there has been some improvement, but argued that “Egypt accepts the fact that there is smuggling from its territory… [which] is part of the Middle Eastern theater of the absurd. We have asked the Egyptians to deal with the families of smugglers operating in Sinai.”
So, you think those British MPs still think we should “seize the opportunity” for that Fatah-Hamas reconciliation?
Shyeah.