PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR WATCH
Hamas-Fatah Clash Involves PA Foreign Minister - Khaled Abu Toameh
PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar arrived Tuesday at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on his way to an Asian tour. According to one eyewitness, a PA policeman "went up to his [Zahar's] car and asked him whether he was traveling abroad to bring money. Zahar was deeply offended by the question, opened the window of the back door, and spat in the face of the policeman. It was a very embarrassing situation." Following the incident, scores of Hamas gunmen blocked the main entrance to the border crossing, preventing travelers from crossing into Egypt. They demanded that the policeman who had offended Zahar be handed over, but were turned down. Senior PA security officers at the terminal later apologized to Zahar and told him that the policeman had been suspended.
PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar arrived Tuesday at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on his way to an Asian tour. According to one eyewitness, a PA policeman "went up to his [Zahar's] car and asked him whether he was traveling abroad to bring money. Zahar was deeply offended by the question, opened the window of the back door, and spat in the face of the policeman. It was a very embarrassing situation." Following the incident, scores of Hamas gunmen blocked the main entrance to the border crossing, preventing travelers from crossing into Egypt. They demanded that the policeman who had offended Zahar be handed over, but were turned down. Senior PA security officers at the terminal later apologized to Zahar and told him that the policeman had been suspended.
Meanwhile, the director-general of Palestine TV, Muhammad Dahoudi, said he and his staff had received death threats after airing footage of Monday's clashes in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in which a Jordanian embassy driver was killed. Hamas leaders accused the Fatah-controlled Palestine TV of inciting against Hamas by reporting that the driver was killed by Hamas gunfire. (Jerusalem Post)
SEE ALSO: Gaza gunmen kill one Hamas member, wound four.
GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen in Gaza shot and killed one Hamas member and wounded four others from the Islamic militant group on Wednesday in renewed violence after Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called for rival factions to show restraint.
GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen in Gaza shot and killed one Hamas member and wounded four others from the Islamic militant group on Wednesday in renewed violence after Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called for rival factions to show restraint.
No group claimed responsibility for the shootings, which came amid a power struggle between Hamas, now in charge of the Palestinian government, and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction.
Hamas sources said three unarmed Hamas members were kidnapped at dawn in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. They were later dumped on a street with gunshot wounds in their legs. Medics said one of the wounded men later died. Relatives of the three Hamas members blamed Fatah gunmen for the abduction.
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