[ 26/12/2009 - 02:22 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Movement of Hamas said Saturday that the Israeli assassination of three resistance fighters in the West Bank is a war crime committed in coordination with Mahmoud Abbas’s militias.
In a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri affirmed that it is a war crime because these three young men were killed after their arrest.
Spokesman Abu Zuhri noted that there is security coordination between Abbas’s militias and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) before carrying out any Israeli military incursions into West Bank cities to kidnap Palestinians.
He stressed that this crime underscored the need to activate the role of the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and protect it rather than conspire against it.
Palestinian medics and witnesses said an Israeli special force encircled at dawn Saturday the homes of three members of A-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah dissolved by Abbas, and assassinated them before their families, although they showed no resistance, while some reported that they were killed on their beds.
For his part, senior Hamas official Dr. Ismail Radwan strongly denounced Israel for killing six Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Radwan said that these crimes affirm the Israeli criminal mentality that only believes in murder and bloodshed, slamming the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its involvement in killing the three resistance fighters.
Hamas spokesman in central Gaza Yousuf Farahat also accused Abbas’s militias in the West Bank of involving in the assassination operation carried out today by Israel in Nablus.
Spokesman Farahat said that the assassination of the three resistance fighters of Al-Aqsa Brigades, took place after Abbas’s militias intensified its security campaigns in the West Bank in coordination with Israel during the last two days in order to revenge the killing of an Israeli settler.
He noted that spokesman for Abbas’s militias Adnan Al-Damiri threatened two days ago to punish everyone involved in the killing of the Israeli settler.
In a related context, Abbas’s militias kidnapped during the last two days five Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas in the districts of Al-Khalil and Nablus.
In a statement televised Friday by Al-Aqsa satellite channel, Dr. Abdelsattar Qassem, a professor of political science at the university of Al-Najah in Nablus said that the existence of occupation without resistance is an irregular situation in history and the silence of any occupied people towards occupation is an abnormal situation as well.
Qassem underlined that the Palestinian resistance should be responsible for developing its resistance means to overcome harassment and arrest campaigns carried out against it, stressing that the Israeli occupation must not feel safe in the West Bank and must pay for its occupation
[ 26/12/2009 - 04:50 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Salam Fayyad, the head of the unconstitutional PA government in Ramallah, on Saturday warned the Palestinian people and factions of taking any action in retaliation to the Israeli assassination of three Palestinian resistance fighters in Nablus.
Fayyad expressed hope that the Palestinian people would not get themselves into a spiral of violence and chaos, and attempt to undermine the stability and security achieved by the popular rallying around the efforts made by the PA in this regard.
“Our people are aware that the main objective of Israel from such acts and practices of aggression is to evade its political and security obligations,” he said.
For its part, Fatah said Saturday that the PA security apparatuses disarmed a few days ago the three Palestinian fighters who were killed today by Israeli troops in Nablus.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, had claimed responsibility for killing an Israeli settler in Tulkarem in cooperation with Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah dissolved by Mahmoud Abbas, and added that the PA security apparatuses carried out campaigns to arrest the resistance fighters of the two armed wings immediately after the operation.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that the killing of an Israeli settler prompted the PA security apparatuses to summon and arrest dozens of Palestinian young men in the West Bank.
The PA security apparatuses have kidnapped more than 120 Palestinian citizens against the backdrop of killing an Israeli settler and warned it would punish everyone involved.
For its part, the Movement of Hamas held the unlawful PA government in Ramallah and its security apparatuses responsible for the killing of three Palestinian resistance fighters, saying that their murder is the fruit of their security coordination with Israel.
In a press release, Hamas said that since the killing of an Israeli settler, the PA security apparatuses have embarked on summoning and arresting dozens of citizens throughout the West Bank to gather information leading to the Palestinian resistance fighters who killed the settler.
Hamas urged the free men in Fatah to regain their role in resisting the Israeli occupation until the liberation of Palestine and to declare their rejection of the PA collaboration with Israel.
For his part, senior Hamas official and lawmaker Yahya Al-Abadsa stated Saturday that the Palestinian resistance fighters have the right to respond to the crimes of murder committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Abadsa stressed that the Palestinian people do not need a Palestinian authority who collaborate with the Israeli occupation against its people, calling on the PA to immediately stop its security coordination with Israel.
The Movement of Islamic Jihad, for its part, stated Saturday that the Israeli assassination of three Palestinian resistance fighters of Al-Aqsa Brigades must be retaliated to by all resistance factions.
In a statement, Islamic Jihad said that this crime against Al-Aqsa fighters in Nablus confirmed that there should be no longer justification for hunting the resistance fighters, disarming them, and giving Americans and Israelis pledges to curb the resistance and popular revolts.
“It is time to stop wagering on the settlement process, while our people are slaughtered and our land is plundered,” Islamic Jihad underlined.
“Our people are fed up with the PA insistence on going on with its security coordination and the obligations of the security plans. It is time for the forces of our people and all their factions to take a decisive and final position towards the security coordination and everyone involved in it as a first step to protect our people,” Islamic Jihad added.
[ 26/12/2009 - 07:55 AM ]
Dr. Ghassan Hamdan, in charge of the medical relief society in northern West Bank, told the PIC in a telephone statement that large numbers of IOF troops stormed Nablus shortly after midnight Friday and besieged a number of Palestinian homes in the Old City.
He added that the soldiers broke into the home of Ghassan Abu Sharkh and shot him in the chest and legs as soon as he opened the door killing him instantly.
The same scenario was repeated in the home of Ra'ed Al-Surkaji who was hit with a bullet in the head and a number of bullets below his chest, Hamdan said, adding that his wife Tahani, who is pregnant, was wounded in her feet and was carried to Rafidia hospital.
Hamdan said that IOF troops blasted the home of Anan Subuh in downtown Nablus and later found him in another house and shot him dead in cold blood.
Nablus citizens accused the security militias of Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office as PA chief had expired last January, of collusion in the crime after they mounted a feverish pursuit of those who shot and killed an Israeli settler a couple of days earlier west of Nablus.
The Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, and the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, had announced joint responsibility for the attack on Thursday.
Jewish settlers, in reaction to the shooting of the settler, on Friday threw stones at Palestinian vehicles on Friday near Nablus damaging three of them.
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