Gunfights violate Gaza truce

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Gunfights violate Gaza truce  - CNN.com

GAZA CITY (AP) -- Gunfights between Hamas and Fatah gunmen erupted across Gaza on Thursday, effectively destroying a three-day truce that brought a brief period of quiet to the volatile area. Four people were killed and several others wounded in the fighting. Hamas militants fired mortar shells near Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' residence in Gaza City and nearby street battles sent residents fleeing in terror. Some left their cars idling while they ran for shelter. Masked gunmen took up positions on rooftops, while others took cover in alleyways below. Abbas was not in Gaza at the time. The violence broke out in the central Gaza town of Bureij after Hamas militants hijacked a convoy delivering supplies to the Fatah-allied security forces, security officials said. Security reinforcements were seen flooding into the town. Soon after, separate gunbattles broke out in Gaza City and in northern Gaza outside a military intelligence post. Security officials said Hamas militants fired a rocket at the post and then sacked it, injuring five members of the security forces. At least two Hamas supporters were wounded, Hamas said. A Fatah member was kidnapped in northern Gaza during the clashes, and one security officer was wounded, security officials said. In Gaza, unknown gunmen opened fire early Thursday at Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum as he drove with three bodyguards in his sedan toward an impromptu checkpoint near Gaza City, Hamas said. There were no casualties. A Hamas announcement blamed "coup-seekers," meaning militants from the rival Fatah party. "This is a violation of the [truce] agreement," Barhoum said. He reported the incident to Egyptian mediators and the gunmen removed their checkpoint, he said. Later Thursday, gunmen in a car shot at Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for a Hamas militia, Shahwan said, blaming the shooting on Fatah-affiliated security officers. One Hamas member was wounded, he said. Other sporadic shooting attacks were reported Thursday, including one that wounded a Hamas militant. The early incidents didn't unravel the cease-fire, but on Thursday afternoon, Hamas gunmen ambushed an official convoy guarded by the presidential guard and hijacked two trucks filled with tents, medical kits and toilets, security officials said. The United States and some Arab countries had pledged to give equipment and training to the security forces loyal to Abbas. The attack sparked the new fighting, which killed four people in Bureij, including a security officer, hospital officials said. "How can they attack the presidential guards like that when there is a cease-fire?" said Wael Dahab, a presidential guard spokesman. In the wake of the fighting, security officials re-established roadblocks near Abbas' official residence in Gaza City. Masked security officers took up positions in the streets. Masked Hamas gunmen also carjacked a police jeep near the U.N. headquarters in Gaza City, stealing the weapons of those in the vehicle, security officials said. The truce was declared early Tuesday by leaders of Fatah and Hamas and was meant to bring an end to internal fighting that has left more than 60 Palestinians dead since early December, though it did not resolve the underlying animosity between the groups.

Man what is wrong with Hamas. Their stubborness and blind hatred doesn't accomplish anything for them. In fact it just sets them back.

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Quote by: GHook93 Gunfights violate Gaza truce  - CNN.com Man what is wrong with Hamas. Their stubborness and blind hatred doesn't accomplish anything for them. In fact it just sets them back.

8 dead as Gaza battle rages GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Factional fighting echoed through the streets of Gaza City Friday as militia members of the ruling Palestinian Hamas party battled rivals from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. The current round of violence began with a fierce midnight shootout at Gaza's Islamic University and followed Thursday's clashes between Hamas and Fatah. The two days of fighting have left at least eight dead and more than 100 wounded and shredded a cease-fire the two factions agreed upon earlier this week. Palestinian security sources Friday said Hamas had killed four Fatah intelligence officers and were trying to take over Fatah bases in northern Gaza. In overnight fighting, police under Fatah's control fought their way onto the university campus and seized hundreds of rocket-propelled grenades and more than 2,000 weapons, Palestinian security sources said. Fatah also claimed to have detained six Iranian military officers, including a colonel and four men it called "chemical experts." Hamas denied the claims, for which there was no independent confirmation Friday.

Same old shit from Hamas and now Iran is sticking there heads where it doesn't belong.

How can Israel or anyone take Hamas serious? Every cease-fire or negotiation they make, they got back on instantly!

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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his political rival, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, will negotiate details on forming a national unity Palestinian government during Wednesday's meetings in Saudi Arabia's holy city Mecca, Saudi officials said. The meetings began shortly after midday prayers. Abbas will offer Hamas his "agreement to forming a Palestinian government without a Fatah minister on the condition that it will accept all international agreements signed by previous Palestinian governments," Palestinian Parliament member Nabil Shaath told CNN.com Arabic in an exclusive interview conducted in Dubai Tuesday. The leaders of the two rival Palestinian militant groups met last month in Damascus

My guess is Hamas will reject it, since they don't want peace they want violence. A Palestinian state is within arms reach and they can't seize the day.