Band Aid
Wounded Palestinians from Gaza were picked up at the Erez Crossing by Israeli ambulances and spirited away to Israeli hospitals for treatment. The International Committee of the Red Cross successfully brokered this humanitarian gesture, the rescue of victims of the supremacy-fought battle between Hamas and Fatah factions.Hamas gunmen armed with assault weapons and grenades, disguised in civilian garb, let loose a surprise attack on Fatah gunmen close to the Crossing, in an effort to halt them from seeking refuge through Israel into the West Bank. Hence those injured Palestinians now being treated by Israeli medicos. It's been quietly speculated that Israeli physicians are also treating Hamas wounded.
Still, some hundreds of Palestinians remain in wait in the pedestrian tunnel at the Erez Crossing for permission from Israeli authorities to cross into Israel to make their way to the West Bank and safety from their Hamas persecuters. Among them some senior Fatah members. Can we be more specific about their identity?
Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, after all, are senior Fatah members. They who so love to brandish their weapons, threaten Israel, and happily lob Kassam rockets over the border. It is sad, it is dreadful, to witness, even at such a geographic remove, the miserable plight of people under incredible duress, in fear for their very lives.
Yet Israeli army officers consider some of those attempting to reach the West Bank are potentially dangerous to the State of Israel and therefore the conditions in the West Bank, as they've been implicated in previous attacks against the Jewish state. So - merely Fatah sympathizers or members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade - speak up, please!
Hamas, a listed terrorist organization in much of the West, and Fatah, whose offspring are only mildly terrorist in nature?
Labels: Middle East
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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