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Haaretz reports:

A Hamas official on Sunday said a group of Fatah men returned by Israel to the Gaza Strip were immediately detained by the Palestinian militant group’s security forces.

Further it is reported that Abbas gave the order to send them back:

Israel sent the group back on Sunday after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad withdrew an earlier request for Defense Minister Ehud Barak to allow the Gazans entry to Israel and then to transfer them to the West Bank.

Can anyone out there explain to me why the PA refused to allow these guys into the West Bank? They must realize that Hamas is going to eliminate them.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Hamas has resumed its policy of shaving mustaches of political opponents to humiliate them, Fatah officials said Wednesday.

Hamas resorted to this form of punishment in the past after arresting senior Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip, the officials said.

Hamas, for its part, accused the Palestinian Authority security forces of shaving the beards of detained Hamas officials in the West Bank.

Gunfire and explosions shook Gaza City on Saturday as Hamas forces battled fighters in a tribal stronghold where suspects in a deadly bombing were allegedly hiding. (Maan News)

Why do Hamas and Fatah kill each other? Why do Iraqis commit mass murder upon their fellow citizens? Why do the Lebanese shoot and blow each other up (Sunnis, Shiites, Alawaits — you name it). Why have they all repeatedly tried to exterminate Israel? Its not because of ideology. It`s because they have the weapons, that`s why.

After that Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef converted to Chritianity and after the Family denied that he converted, the son of the Hamas leader is slamming Hamas:

“You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death. They have to take revenge against anyone who did not agree to accept the Prophet Mohammed, like the Jews who are seen in the Koran as monkeys and the sons of pigs. They speak in terms of historical rights that were taken from them. In the view of Hamas, peace with Israel contradicts sharia and the Koran, and the Jews have no right to remain in Palestine.” (Haaretz)

I am wondering what price he is going to pay for this interview. We know whats happening to collaborators in Hamas land.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered Thursday night the immediate release of all those arrested in response to the Gaza bombing on 25 July. (Maan News)

Meanwhile:

Fatah officials say their Hamas rivals have arrested senior Fatah leaders in the Gaza Strip, continuing a weeklong crackdown. (JPost)

Sounds to me that Abbas is under big pressure by Hamas. Is he going to be able to stay in power or will Hamas finally take over the West Bank?

Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners (YnetNews).

This is no way to build a civil society. Hamas is producing an evil generation of hate and war.

Keep in mind that summer camps run by Fatah back in 2000 were also about military training and hate education; important to remind leaders that bad as Hamas and Islamic Jihad are, Fatah is not a good alternative. The fruits of Oslo; bringing terrorist groups which controlled and incited the Palestinian population.

Following a child on a mission to kill Jews:

I this last Video it is interesting to see the viewer comments on YouTube.

But maybe something is happening in the World, at least the Norway wants to freeze the aid to the PA after they learned that the budget was used to glorify terrorism and terrorists, and to promote hatred and violence (Arutz 7).

And last not least the following Video from the PA TV that was board casted on a daily basis…

The following is the text of the hate video:

“My enemy. Oh, my enemy.
Stop your crimes.
Treaty breaker! Treacherous!…
If you pull out my eyes,
My heart will see. (x2)
If you cut off my hands,
My chest is knives and swords.
My enemy! Oh imperialism!
This homeland is ours. (x2)
This land will be tilled
only by our hoes. (x2)
Whenever the tension rises,
Whenever this land weeps, (x2)
the flower will return
to grow in our house.
My enemy. Oh, my enemy.
Stop your crimes.
Treaty breaker! Treacherous!…
My enemy! Oh snake!
Around the land, you are coiled. (x2)
We, noble, courageous,
on the day of ruin [battle], shall stand.
You have no choice, Oh enemy,
but to leave my country.
And my children will return.

This rare video shows masked gunmen of the Popular Resistance Committees building and stockpiling rockets, then later militants from the Gaza Qassam Brigades in field combat exercises firing shoulder-fired rockets and live ammunition.

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“the current situation in the West Bank is similar to that in the Gaza Strip before Hamas took control. Security forces are committing crimes in their interrogation and torture centers.
We remind them [Fatah],that they planted thorns and they will harvest regret. Abu Zuhri” (Maannews)

Israel must do everything to stop any takeover by Hamas. It would transform the West Bank into a big 2nd Gaza with rockets on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem!

Hamas militias in the Gaza Strip has banned three major Palestinian dailies.

The Palestinian Journalists Union in the West Bank said Hamas militias in Gaza prevented the three newspapers, al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat
al-Jadida, from being distributed after they arrived in the besieged Strip.

Hamas gangs stormed on Saturday the offices of WAFA news Agency in Gaza, stole computers and files and destroyed all of its equipment and furniture. (WAFA)

Palestinian Authority’s security services on Monday morning arrested more than 54 Hamas’ affiliates in Nablus in the northern West Bank, in what is believed to be the biggest apprehension campaign since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip. (Maan News)

Looks like the Fatah is retaliating…

Hamas arrests 120 Fatah men after 6 die in Gaza blast (Haaretz).

Palestinians? Who are you? Are you from this planet or aliens?

what is wrong with you? You are doomed, doomed. you will never ever manage to have your own state, just look at you. You are the laughing stock of the entire world. We here are shaking our heads and even those that are anti Israel are sick and tired of your stupidity and antics.

So, if you can’t kill israelis, you end up killing yourselves. Amazing. Do you know how to do anything except hate, kill, fight, terrorise, build bombs, pray, do nothing with your lives, etc…?

Diskin says Hamas using truce to plant mines in Gaza Shin Bet chief tells Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Palestinian group has missiles which can reach Kiryat Gat, Ashdod; adds he
opposes Barghouti’s release.

Five days after a Palestinian Authority court in Jenin sentenced two Palestinians to death for collaboration with Israel, a Hamas court on Sunday sentenced another Palestinian to death for the same offense.

Iyad Hamed Sukkar, 35, of Gaza City, was sentenced to death by a “military” court controlled by the Hamas government.

He was found guilty of tipping off Israeli security forces on the whereabouts of Palestinians who were later killed by the IDF. The judges wrote in the verdict that Sukkar had been recruited as a spy five years ago.

The court was told that Sukkar’s actions resulted in the killing of at least two Palestinians: Muhammad al-Wadiyeh and Munir Sukkar. The two were members of Hamas’s armed wing, Izzadin al-Kassam.

This was the first time a court had sentenced a Palestinian to death since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.

Death sentences must be approved by the president of the PA.

However, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, unlike his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, has thus far refused to endorse any death sentences.

Ihab al-Ghissin, spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said his government would act in line with the law and seek Abbas’s approval for the death sentence against Sukkar.

“Despite the political differences [between Hamas and Fatah], we will seek the president’s approval,” Ghissin said. “But if Abbas refuses to approve the court’s verdict for political reasons, we will seek other alternatives.
We can’t afford a situation where court rulings are ignored, as was the case when Abbas’s men were in control of the Gaza Strip.”

The two men sentenced to death last week were identified as Wael Saed, 27, and Muhammad Saed, 22. They are from the town of Yatta near Hebron.

The latter was sentenced in absentia after the court was told that he had fled to Israel.

The three-judge court ruled that the two men would be executed by a firing squad for passing on information to Israeli security forces.

In April a PA security court in Hebron sentenced Imad Saad, an officer in Abbas’s National Security Force, to death by firing squad after convicting him of having provided Israel with information that led to the killing of four Palestinians involved in terrorism.

At least 65 Palestinians have been sentenced to death by PA courts since 1995. Most of them were accused of collaboration with Israel.

However, only 13 have been executed by hanging or firing squad. Many others were killed while they were in detention, hospital, on their way to court or even while they were in court. (JPost)

Jul. 20, 2008 Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST

The Tunnel Business is booming so following some facts:

• Rafah straddles the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It is divided by an 18ft metal wall that stretches more than 2km (1.2 miles)

• An estimated 40,000 people live on the Egyptian side of Rafah, and 150,000 on the Gaza side

• Tunnels have been used to smuggle goods, weapons and people across the border at Rafah since the early 1990s

• As deep as 20 metres, most have ventilation shafts every 200 metres or so, and engineers can dig an estimated 15 metres a day, using a compass to set the direction

• They are dug from the basements of homes along a 9km stretch of the border

• Having a person smuggled across costs about £1,000, A sack of items about £150

• Since January 2003, the tunnels have been used to smuggle large amounts of various types of weapons into the Gaza Strip, including dozens of RPG rockets and launchers, hundreds of kilograms of explosives, hundreds of rifles (mainly Kalashnikov AK47s) and tens of thousands of bullets, cartridges and other types of ammunition

96% of those detained had been beaten, and 94% of them were subjected to sleep deprivation, and 89% were subjected to the spectre of sleep deprivation and food and drink together, and 70% were subjected to extreme cold or heat. (Aljazeera.net)

This happens in Palestinian Prisons in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. Human rights organizations confirmed that Palestinian prisons are turned into centres of torture (hrw.org). I wonder if the UN and all those Human Right organizations  are going to take action…