Hamas warns Israel against escalation

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Hamas warns Israel against escalation
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The Hamas movement is warning it will escalate hostilities against Israel if tensions don’t subside along the Gaza-Israeli border.

“There is a truce in effect in the field. It is real if Israel stops its aggression and ends it’s siege. But if there is any Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip we will respond strongly,” said a masked spokesman for Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades who identified himself as Abu Obeideh.

Speaking at a press conference with three guards, who were all masked and armed, he said the group was ready to repel any future Israeli invasion and hinted at a secret weapon.

“We are completely ready to answer any Israeli aggression,” he said. “Our weapons are few compared to those of the Israeli occupation, but we have something that will worry the occupation,” he said without giving details.

Israel’s military said this week that one of its tanks patrolling the Gaza border had been hit by a Russian-made Kornet anti-tank rocket, the first time such a weapon had been encountered there.

However, Ahmed Al-Jabari, the head of the Al-Qassam Brigades, had a much more militant message for Israel, saying Hamas would not rest until Israel was ousted from all Palestinian lands and Israelis faced either two choices: “Death or departing Palestinian lands.”

“Our resistance will continue as long as the Zionists remain,” said a letter signed by Jabari, published in a Hamas magazine.

Their comments come a day after a senior political leader of the Palestinian movement, Mahmud Zahar, also said Hamas was committed to the truce in effect since the January 2009 end of the 22-day Israeli offensive on the strip aimed at halting rocket fire by Palestinian militants.

But it also comes amid rising tension along Israel’s border with the tiny coastal enclave.

Overnight Saturday, Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least two people and knocking out power in a large swathe of the strip.

The strikes came after fighters fired a mortar and rocket into Israel on Friday, according to the army, which called the target a “terror center.”

A total of 23 mortars and four rockets have been launched at Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip since Sunday, the army said. One of the rockets struck near a kindergarten in a southern Israeli kibbutz, wounding a teenage girl.

On Dec. 18, Israeli warplanes hit central Gaza, killing five fighters as they were about to launch a rocket attack, according to the army and witnesses.

While most of the rockets fired have been by other groups, Israel still says it holds Hamas, which rules the strip, responsible for maintaining calm there.

Taken from:
Hamas warns Israel against escalation - Arab News

(In the picture above, look at the M16s they have. From where did they get those?)

 

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pps, did you ever ask yourself why Hamas issues such statements? Could Hamas be waving the banner of anti-Zionism to obscure the fact that they are really up to this:

Assaf accused devices Hamas arrest and torture of children and Cbham in the cold for raising the banners of the Fatah movement

12/20/2010 05:23:32 Number of Views (3623)

Ramallah - Palestine Press - A spokesman for the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), Ahmed Assaf, 'It's the day when Israel of committing a horrific massacre against our people in Gaza was the sum of five martyrs, the organs of Hamas steps up its crimes against the sons of the movement of' open ' , which reached to the children '.

وأضاف عساف، في بيان صادر عن مفوضية الإعلام والثقافة، مساء يوم الأحد، أن هذه الجرائم وصلت إلى مستوى خطير من انتهاك لكافة حقوق أهلنا في غزة، وتحديدا أبناء حركة 'فتح'، عندما قامت اليوم باعتقال الطفل القاصر محمد أبو هربيد (13 عام&#1575 وآطفالا آخرين، وقامت بتعذيبهم وضربهم بالهراوات وشبحهم معصوبي الأعين في البرد بتهمة رفع رايات حركة 'فتح'. The Assaf, said in a statement issued by the Office of Information and Culture, on the evening of Sunday, that these crimes amounted to a serious level of violation of all rights of our people in Gaza, specifically the sons of the movement of 'open', when today the arrest of a minor child Mohammed Abu Harbeed (13 years) and other children, and tortured and beaten with batons and Cbham blindfolded in the cold for raising the banners of the movement of 'open'.

وأكد أن هذه 'الممارسات تتنافى مع المبادئ الوطنية والأخلاقية والعادات والتقاليد، ومع حقوق الإنسان والعهود والمواثيق الدولية، التي نصت على حماية حقوق الأطفال، وكذلك تتعارض مع تعاليم ديننا الحنيف'. He emphasized that the 'practices are incompatible with the principles of national and moral traditions and customs, and with human rights and international covenants and instruments, which provide for the protection of the rights of children, as well as inconsistent with the teachings of our religion'.

وقال عساف إن حماس مرعوبة من أي نشاط قد تقوم به حركة 'فتح' لاعتقادها أن هذا قد يهدد سيطرتها على غزة، و'ما حملة الاعتقالات والاستدعاءات التي تقوم بها أجهزة حماس ضد المئات من كوادر وكادرات الحركة وطلبة المدارس إلا خير دليل على ذلك، وكأن حركة 'فتح' أصبحت الخطر الوحيد على حماس'. Said Assaf said that Hamas was terrified of any activity that may play the movement of 'open' in the belief that this could threaten its control of Gaza, and 'what the campaign of arrests and summonses by the organs of Hamas against hundreds of cadres and cadres of movement and school students, but the best proof of that, and if the movement of 'open' has become the only threat to Hamas'.

وأكد عساف لكافة أبناء شعبنا الفلسطيني وتحديدا أهالي غزة الحبيبة بقاء حركة 'فتح' حامية للمشروع الوطني الفلسطيني وأن كل المؤامرات الداخلية والخارجية لم تستطع النيل من مكانة 'فتح' وتأثيرها، 'لأنها متجذرة بين أبناء شعبنا الذين يدركون أهمية حركة 'فتح' في معركة التحرر الوطني وبناء المستقبل الواعد الذي يريده الجميع'. The Assaf for all our people, particularly the people of Gaza beloved survival of the movement of 'open' the protector of the Palestinian national project and that all the plots of internal and external can not discredit the 'open' and its impact, 'because it is rooted among our people who understand the importance of movement' open 'in the battle of liberation national and building a promising future who wants all '.

يذكر أن أجهزة حماس تقوم، ومنذ أكثر من أسبوع، باستدعاء يومي لأمين سر إقليم 'فتح' في شمال غزة جمال عبيد وقيادة الإقليم، واستدعاء يومي لأمين سر الشبيبة في القطاع طارق سعد منذ أكثر من أربعين يوما. The devices are Hamas, and since more than a week, call on the secretary of the territory of the 'Open' in northern Gaza, Jamal Obeid and leadership of the region, and call on the Secretary of the youth sector Tarek Saad, since more than forty days.
2010-12-20 05:23:32 2010-12-20 05:23:32