PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR UPDATE

Palestinian student injured in Hamas-Fatah brawl (JPost)
Palestinian security forces trying to break up a brawl between thousands of Hamas and Fatah supporters opened fire Tuesday, wounding three students in the most violent clash between the rival groups in the West Bank since the fall of Gaza to Hamas last month. The clash erupted at An Najah University, the West Bank’s largest, in the city of Nablus.
It began when Hamas supporters staged a sit-in on campus and raised their movement’s green flags. Fatah activists demanded that the Hamas flags be removed, and a fistfight erupted.

Witnesses said students also threw chairs at each other. At some point, dozens of Palestinian security officers broke into the university and opened fire, the witnesses said.

Hamas, Fatah in Stalemate in West Bank - Ben Hubbard
Since the fall of Gaza to Hamas, Fatah is pushing hard to restrict Hamas' influence in the West Bank, but the Islamists, who have won control of several key towns in local elections since 2005, are too deeply rooted in Palestinian society to be sidelined easily. Immediately after the Gaza takeover, Abbas fired the Hamas-led government and ordered a crackdown on the group in the West Bank, including the arrests of dozens of Hamas militants. (AP/Washington Post)

See also Palestinian Gunmen Storm Fatah Offices in Gaza
Fatah officials said members of Hamas' Executive Force stormed the offices of senior Fatah lawmaker Ashraf Goma in Gaza on Monday. Goma was hit in the head with a rifle butt during the raid and at least three office workers were shot and wounded. (Reuters)

UNIV. OF MANCHESTER TWINNED WITH WEST BANK TERROR SCHOOL

UK, West Bank universities twinned. (YNet)
The University of Manchester in northern England has been “twinned” with al-Najah University in the West Bank following the passing of a motion filled with anti-Israel rhetoric by the student’s union last week.

Some 19 Palestinian suicide bombers have originated from al-Najah, and in 2001, the university organized a display to celebrate and recreate the suicide bomb attack on the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, which killed 15 Israelis.

The motion stated that “Palestinian education has been severely hindered since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 by blanket curfews, the presence of roadblocks and recently the erection of the wall. The cumulative effects of these measures have put the future of many Palestinian universities at grave risk.“ ...

The motion was introduced by a student group called ”Palestine Action," a subsidiary of the British Respect Party, itself made up of an alliance between Islamists and far-Left activists, and supported by the university’s Islamic Society, a Jewish student representative told Ynetnews.