Palæstina: Over 500 arabere nu dræbt af deres egne alene i år

Torsdag kom antallet af arabere, der er blevet dræbt af deres egne i palæstina op på 500. Det beretter bloggen Elder of Ziyon. Torsdagens offer var en 2-årig pige, der blev ramt af en kugle i Jabalya i den HAMAS-besatte Gaza-stribe.

Kuglen der dræbte pigen kom ifølge Palestine Today fra en uidentificeret kilde, en beskrivelse der oftest hentyder til de arabiske bosætteres festlige skyderier under bryllupper og andre familiære begivenheder. Nummer 497-499 blev netop dræbt i kampe mellem de arabiske terrorgrupper HAMAS og Islamisk Jihad om retten til at skyde vildt omkring sig til et bryllup.

Kampene startede onsdag nat, da tre HAMAS-terrorister blev skudt og såret nord for Gaza By mens de forsøgte at stoppe festlighederne ved et bryllup. En af de sårede døde senere. Da flere HAMAS-medlemmer blev kaldt til lagde terrorister fra Islamisk Jihad sig imellem, og et større skyderi udviklede sig. Under den voldsomme beskydning af brudeparrets hjem blev tre familiemedlemmer såret.

Torsdag fortsatte bandeopgørene, da terror-gruppen HAMAS kidnappede en gruppe terrorister fra Islamis Jihad fra den moske de bad i, trak dem med udenfor og skød dem i benene. Nidal al-Daya, et medlem af Islamisk Jihad blev desuden skudt i hovedet og dræbt. Salah al-Amoudi, en tilfældig tilskuer, blev også dræbt.

Bloggen Elder of Ziyon´s såkaldte PalArab self-death count omfatter interne kampe, henrettelser, æresdrab og "arbejdsuheld" under terrorangreb. Metoden bag indsamlingen kan findes her.

Kilder:

• Elder of Ziyon 30. marts 2007: PalArab self-death count methodology
• Elder of Ziyon 2. august 2007: Islamic Jihad kills Hamas member over right to shoot at weddings
• Elder of Ziyon 2. august 2007: "Grim milestone" reached: 500 Palestinian Arabs killed by each other this year
• Jerusalem Post 2. august 2007: 2 killed in clashes between Hamas, Islamic Jihad

Palæstina: 4 dræbt i kampe mellem arabiske terrorgrupper

Fra Ynetnews:

Two members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing, were killed in an exchange of fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon.

Shortly after, Fatah gunmen opened fire at Hamas operatives in retaliation, killing two group members.

The two were Fatah men identified as Baheh Abu Jarad, a senior member of the Brigades, and his bodyguard, Tawfiq al-Todi.

Palestinian sources said the gun battle began nearby Abu Jarad’s home; the senior Fatah member was shot in the head and heart, and died of his wounds shortly after at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.

A Fatah official claimed that Hamas gunmen fired several RPG missiles at Abu Jarad and his men during the shootout.

I tiden op til kampene var der øgede spændinger mellem terroristerne, da den ene arabiske terrorgruppe, FATAH, sendte sikkerhedsstyrker ind i Gaza By uden først at bede den anden arabiske terror-gruppe, HAMAS om lov. Ironisk nok brød kampene ud efter de to grupper var blevet enige om at trække deres tyrker tilbage og genstarte forhandlinger om udstationeringen.

Kilder:

• Ynetnews 13/5: 4 Palestinians killed in Gaza

Israel: Fanget al-Qaeda-topmand bag selvmordsangreb i Israel i 2003

Det spektakulært fejlslagne dobbelte selvmordsangreb i april 2003 bliver nu forbundet med Nashwan abd al-Razzaq abd al-Baqi, den al-Qaeda-topmand der i denne uge blev overført til Guantanamo:

Under US interrogation, his rich experience in charting al Qaeda’s offensive in the West has come to light. Al Hadi is now credited with plotting the first direct al Qaeda suicide attack inside Israel on direct orders from Osama bin Laden.

Two British Muslims were sent to blow up the US embassy in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003. Instead, they bombed a Tel Aviv seafront bar, Mike’s Place, killing three Israelis and injuring 60.

Al Hadi was quick to spot the potential of young British Muslims of Pakistani origin, who are English-speaking and carry EU passports. Their recruitment was a major feat of this Iraqi-born terrorist commander’s global strategy. Two years later (according to the Sunday Times), he is said to have masterminded the July 7 suicide bombings on the British tube and a bus, leaving 52 dead and hundreds injured.

Asif Muhammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, the Mike’s Place bombers, were headhunted at the radical Finsbury Park mosque in London. So too was Richard Reid, the failed shoe bomber serving time in the United States for attempting to blow up an American Airlines plane bound for Miami from Paris in Dec. 2002.

Past investigations established that Hanif, Sharif and Reid all spent time at Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip before they embarked on their missions.

The al Hadi case confirms once again the farsightedness and long preparations al Qaeda invests in operational planning. In each case, every effort is made to wipe clean any leads to the chain of command after the suicide bombers are dead; the planners have a preset escape route that leaves counter-terror agents very few clues to work with.

Despite the close cooperation between the Israeli, American and British secret services in probing the Mike’s Place attack in 2003, the full scope and depth of Al Qaeda’s mobilization drive in Britain were not appreciated in time to avert the 7/7 bombings on London transport two years later. To this day, no one knows who exactly prepared the explosives used in Tel Aviv and gave the two bombers their instructions.

Full details of the Mike’s Place bombing, the 4th anniversary of which falls in exactly two days, appeared in DEBKAfile on June 3, 2003. Click HERE

This attack was a flop for its planners in more ways than one, but it served as a useful dry run for the attacks which followed. Asif Hanif managed to detonate his bomb vest, but his partner did not. Omar Sharif escaped and two weeks later, a body identified by Israeli security services as his was washed up on the Jaffa coast.

Kilder:

• DEBKAfile 28/4 2007: Abd al Hadi Engineered First al Qaeda attacks in Israel and Britain

Israel: HAMAS bryder våbenhvile, lider nederlag

HAMAS erklærede torsdag, at de genoptog den våbenhvile i Gaza-striben, som terror-organisationen selv brød med en massiv byge af raketter og granater ind over grænsen til Israel tirsdag.

Idag, lørdag, kom så et eksempel på, hvordan HAMAS overholder våbenhviler:

In Saturday's incident, four armed Palestinians tried to plant a bomb near the Gaza-Israel border and were killed by Israeli troops, the Israeli military said. Palestinian militants have attempted to plant more than 50 bombs near the border since the ceasefire took effect, the army said.

Palestinian medics said they found three bodies in the area and that a fourth person was seriously wounded. Hamas said the three dead were members of its military wing.

Kilder:

• DR 26/4 2007: Hamas vil genoptage våbenhvile
• Brandonsun.com 28/4 2007: Troops shoot and kill at least three Hamas militants in thwarted border attack