Here’s the Gaza City based Palestinian Center for Human Rights’ latest 100-page report on the Fatah-Hamas clashes in June that culminated in Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip. The report comes to the stunning conclusion that neither Fatah nor Hamas fought particularly nice during the infighting. The report details dozens of alleged violations of international law by both sides, including executions, attacks on ambulance crews, the shooting of peaceful demonstrators, and the shelling of a nunnery.
Most worthwhile, however, is the report’s detailed time line of the week long battle that rocked the Gaza Strip in June and the 15 month power struggle leading up to it. It also lists the name and affiliation of every Palestinian to die during the fighting in June. Between Thursday June 7 and Friday June 15, 161 Palestinians died in the fighting in Gaza, 27 members of Hamas, and 92 from Fatah and the security services, according to the report.
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1 Green // Oct 9, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Many reports forget that hundreds more were killed in fighting in the weeks and months preceding June. Many of them were killed even after countless ceasefires that were signed between the two sides. Not to mention the famous Mecca agreement, which proved once again that the number of Middle-Eastern pacts that were breached is equal to the number of pacts that were signed.
Am I trying to hint that agreements with the Arabs, from Israel’s point of vies, are worthless? hell, yes.
2 Pappe // Oct 10, 2007 at 12:23 pm
How about all the women that were killed de to “family honor” since Hamas took over ????
3 Suerte « El Nuevo Pantano // Mar 20, 2008 at 4:23 pm
[…] Qué suerte que tiene el pueblo palestino, todos y cada uno de ellos. A pesar de ser víctimas de un “un terror similar” al del Holocausto, lograron expulsar los colonos israelíes de la Franja de Gaza en Septiembre de 2005, no han dejado de lanzar cohetes al sur de Israel desde hace años y han logrado matar un número muy respetable de sus enemigos en los últimos años. Aún han tenido el tiempo y las fuerzas para una sangrienta guerra civil. […]
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