PALESTINE: REBEL GROUPS TO START TRUCEPalestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas has asked the Fatah Party and Hamas
to stop fighting, after 13 people were recently killed during clashes erupted in the Gaza strip between the two parties. Sufyan Abu Zaidai, Palestinian minister for prisoners and Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas spokesman, said that all the fighters were now coming back home and stop shooting.
Tuesday's episode takes our memory back to some years ago, when these kind of clashes where happening on a daily base.
Apparently
the reason why Hamas and the Fatah party were "infighting" on Tuesday is a
Israeli raid into the Gaza Strip. On Monday night the Israeli army penetrated in the village of al-Yamun with about 30 jeeps and two bulldozers. This invasion caused confusion between the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas military group), which have started to fight against each other at Jabalya refugee camp. The two faction were accusing each other of causing the violence.
The Palestinian security forces were already having troubles with the al-Aqsa martyrs brigades and the Israeli military was apparently preventing the Red Cross as well as many journalists to enter the site of the fighting.
Some buildings nearby were demolished by the Israeli bulldozers, as well as many cars and vehicles. The al-Arabi Centre, a cultural institution, was destroyed in the attack: Its director, Ismail Shakir, was reached on the phone and told about what happened to his centre.
"This incident is a very serious and a very dangerous one and can serve only the Zionist enemy. We call on the Palestinian Authority to show its responsibility and to arrest whoever is behind this awful crime," said Shakir.
al-Jazeera
Il Romanaccio at 10:21 AM