At each other’s throats
Posted on July 27, 2008
Filed Under Middle East, News, Terrorism
Exemplary demonstration of unity and brotherly love in the Midde East:
Palestinians in Gaza. When they don’t plot and execute terrorist acts against Israel, they’re busy killing each other:
Gaza: Bomb blasts rocked a cafe and a Hamas politician’s home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago.
The first bomb went off outside a popular cafe in the centre of Gaza City, killing a passer-by whose identity was not immediately known, according to Hamas security forces.
Hamas blamed unidentified “gunmen” for the bombings, suggesting the involvement of a Palestinian faction.
An Israeli army spokesman said he was not aware of any Israeli activity.
Gaza has been calm since an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold last month.
But the truce has stoked some tensions between Palestinian factions as Hamas has sought to prevent other groups from firing cross-border rockets at Israel.
Same goes for the northern neighbor of Israel - Lebanon - whose terrorist groups entertain themselves by killing one another in internal feuds, despite the truce that was signed between the several Lebanese factions earlier this year in Doha, Qatar:
Tripoli - Nine people including a boy of 10 were killed in fierce sectarian clashes which raged through the night in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security official said on Saturday.Lebanese army tanks patrolled the streets after militants from the rival Sunni Muslim and Alawite communities fought with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons in the latest bout of violence to rock the Mediterranean city.
Among the dead were a 10-year-old boy and two women, while over 50 people were injured, the security officials said
Lebanon has been hit by sporadic outbreaks of violence despite a power-sharing deal between rival political factions in May which led to the election of Michel Sleiman as president and the creation of a unity cabinet.
The latest unrest comes after the new cabinet hit snags in deliberations aimed at drawing up a policy agenda ahead of a parliamentary vote of confidence which would enable the government to be officially installed.
Despite a ceasefire that went into effect at 1500 GMT on Friday, intense fighting raged through the night but by Saturday morning the situation was calm as the army sent in reinforcements.
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were patrolling the streets to keep the peace between fighters in the mainly Sunni Bab al-Tebbaneh district and the neighboring largely Alawite area of Jabal Mohsin.
Oh well, just another day (or two) in the Middle East.
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