Hamas pulls out the plugs

Fighting is raging across the Gaza strip today as Hamas decides it’s more fun to kill Palestinians than Israelis. the Washington Post reports;

Palestinian hospital officials said at least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in the hours-long fight for the Fatah-run Preventive Security headquarters in the center of Gaza City.

Witnesses said Hamas fighters led Fatah officers from the building, some bound and dragged. Television reports from the scene showed groups of shirtless Fatah fighters being marched through the street.

The best way to get your guys worked up into a fighting frenzy is to dehumanize the enemy;

The Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing that has begun referring to Fatah as the “Jew American Army,” has given the Fatah-dominated Palestinian National Forces across northern Gaza until Friday evening to surrender their weapons and turn over their posts.

USAToday has an after-action report;

A survivor of the Hamas assault said the Fatah forces were outgunned and that reinforcements never arrived. “We were pounded with mortar, mortar, mortar,” the Fatah fighter, who only gave his first name as Amjad, said excitedly and out of breath. “They had no mercy. It was boom, boom. They had rockets that could reach almost half of the compound.”

No mercy. From UK’s Telegraph;

“They’re firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We’re not Jews,” the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a Fatah commander, pleaded during a live telephone conversation with a Palestinian radio station.

Minutes later both men were dragged into the streets and riddled with bullets.

These are the guys with whom we’re supposed to negotiate? They shoot their own neighbors in the street. How do we talk to them, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? Maybe you two should go to to Gaza and talk to them.

Category: Foreign Policy, Terror War