Palestinian Infighting

December 7, 2005, 2:22 pm
  





Now that Palestinians have “control” over Gaza, the Strip has become the staging-ground for internecine warfare. In an article aptly sub-titled, “Gaza clans battle it out,” Haaretz reports that:

…a woman was killed and several Palestinians were wounded in a gunbattle between two rival clans in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medics and witnesses said.

The violence erupted after Palestinian security forces and militant faction leaders failed to resolve a dispute that led to the slayings of five Palestinians in fighting four days ago between the same clans in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun.

Witnesses said the woman killed was from a different family than those involved in the fighting, and that she was shot dead in the crossfire. Several other people were wounded, medics said.

A police official said Palestinian security forces deployed in the area after the shootings to restore calm. The heads of both feuding families later “agreed to stop these regrettable incidents,” the official said.

What? No UN resolutions decrying the “Palestinian Authority’s” inability to stop pretending that it is a government? Apparently, Palestinians killing Palestinians is not worthy of “outrage.”




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