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Palestinian reporters in Gaza: Hamas leaders behaving like Osama bin Laden
Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip said on Monday that the general feeling was that Hamas does not exist any longer as a governing body. “All their government institutions have been destroyed,” said a Gaza City reporter. “The Hamas leaders are now behaving like al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden and [his deputy] Ayman Zawahiri. Their only public appearances are through recorded messages aired on Arab TV stations.”
It appears, from these reports, that Hamas leaders in Gaza are no longer able to maintain contact with the Hamas leaders in Syria. They threw away their mobile phones and went into deep hiding. Thus it came as a surprise to those in Hamas in Gaza that two representatives were being sent to Egypt to discuss a means of obtaining a ceasefire –the representatives are being sent from Damascus.
The leaders in Gaza are also not able to coordinate activity with their armed thugs and thus “The gunmen on the streets are now in charge,” the Palestinian reporter noted. “This is a dangerous situation, because they don’t report to anyone at the top. This has created a state of anarchy and confusion.”
A Hamas source in Gaza acknowledged that the Gaza leaders had completely disappeared from sight and were completely out of contact. He, however, said that Mashaal, the Damascus-based leader of Hamas, was in direct contact with commanders of Izzadin Kassam in different parts of the Gaza Strip and was issuing “military” orders from Syria. “There’s a vacuum in the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip,” they said. “The Hamas leaders in Damascus are now in charge. There’s no one to talk to in the Gaza Strip.”
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about 1 year ago
The UN has been silent to the following criminal activities of the Hamas terrorist organization:
1. Hamas has violated the rights of the Palestinian children abusing them, brainwashing them and inciting them to hate and kill.
2. Hamas has deliberately and exclusively fired missiles at Israeli civilian populations hoping to hurt as many civilians as possible. In 2008 alone, Hamas fired 3,278 rockets and mortars from Gaza to Israeli cities.
3. Hamas has been firing these rockets from within densely populated areas using the Palestinian people as human shields. Mosques, hospitals, kindergartens and children are criminally being used as human shields by Hamas operatives.
Enough is enough. UN: your silence to this brings shame to your institution.
Watch and share this video: Children of Hamas – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8
about 1 year ago
The Gazan “journalists” quoted in your story are unidentified. The two “analysts” are reporting from Ramallah, not Gaza (hopefully you are aware the Ramallah is on the Occupied West Bank, and remains completely disconnected from Gaza, ever since the Israeli occupation.). The BBC, PBS, NPR, Pacifica, and “Free Speech” radio and TV all report a much different story. Meanwhile, Israel refuses to let any journalists into Gaza, as the shelling of mosques, homes, hospitals, and villages continues. This kind of warfare will only intensify Palestinian resentment toward Israel, and will lead to further loss of innocent life on BOTH sides, though most of the civilian casualties thus far have been Palestinian. Such aggression will do NOTHING to build a lasting peace. A comprehensive cease fire must be reached as soon as possible–if necessary, with international and UN assistance.
about 1 year ago
Grant — given that Hamas has a track record of arresting and torturing journalists in Gaza –See this report by CPJ (The Committee to Protect Journalists Worldwide:
http://cpj.org/2008/07/palestinian-cameraman-arrested-by-hamas.php — Hamdi Shakkura, deputy director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, has gone on record as saying, “Unfortunately, recently there has been a decrease in public freedom as a result of the conflict between Hamas and Fatah, and journalists are paying the cost of this conflict” and numerous other well-documented examples, along with the fact that Hamas shot and killed 35 high-level Fatah men in Gaza last week and disabled a further 75 by shooting them in the legs, not to mention having killed more than 400 Fatah supporters and “civilians in the way” a year and a half ago, it is no wonder the journalists prefer not to give their names.
See also this report of Journalists arrested in Oct of 2008 http://www.imemc.org/article/57306
and this one: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/897489.html
and this one: http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/4866-hamas-arrests-more-journalists-gaza
and this one: http://www.librariansforfairness.org/news_post.asp?NPI=189
and so on…there are many more
about 1 year ago
Oh yeah, that’s what we need: another truce monitored by the UN. We know how wonderfully effective the UN is doing that, in Lebanon, in Congo, in Darfur… all these places have become havens of peace as soon as the UN took over, not to mention Georgia, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda and so on.
As soon as the UN is talking about a truce, people in Israel better run for their bomb shelters.
about 1 year ago
No truth without teeth, is what I say. The smuggling has got to be stopped and stopped cold. I wouldn’t trust the U.N. to monitor a baby in a bathtub.
about 1 year ago
The Danish goverment wants to send cops to the Rafah boder crossing.
I really don`t know why. Every year come new year, I use to smuggle firecrackers into Denmark………Right under their nose.
Makes me wonder if hamas will stick to firecrackers.