Gaza violence reaches new height in deadly gunbattles By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hamas gunmen stormed the home of a militant from the rival Fatah movement late Friday, witnesses said, sparking a deadly gun battle and capping a day of factional violence that killed at least 12 people, including a two-year-old boy, across the Gaza Strip.
Friday's violence was among the deadliest in nearly two months of infighting and marred the first anniversary of Hamas' upset victory in Palestinian elections. After nightfall, the fighting showed no signs of slowing, as the sound of gunfire echoed throughout Gaza City.
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Some of the heaviest shooting was concentrated around the home of Mansour Shaleil, a local Fatah leader in the Jebaliya refugee camp just north of Gaza City.
Hamas gunmen surrounded the home early Friday to arrest Shaleil, accusing him of involvement in a shooting that killed two Hamas supporters earlier in the day. After an hours-long standoff, dozens of Hamas gunmen stormed the house and exchanged fire with Shaleil and his loyalists, according to witnesses and ambulance drivers.
They later withdrew, Palestinian media reported, leaving Shaleil unharmed. Two people were killed in the fighting. The men were identified as Hamas militants.
"It looks like they forgot who the enemy is," said Maher Mekdad, a Fatah spokesman. "They forgot the Israeli occupation."
Fatah gunmen, meanwhile, kidnapped 19 Hamas militants and threatened to kill them if Shaleil was harmed, officials on both sides said. Their fate wasn't immediately known after Shaleil's release.
Fighting also spread to the headquarters of the pro-Fatah Preventive Security agency in Gaza City. A total of four Hamas gunmen were killed in a battle outside a nearby mosque. Hamas accused Fatah gunmen of starting the battle and wounding several worshippers in a drive-by attack. Mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades were fired during the melee, smashing windows on several nearby homes.
In other incidents, fighting erupted outside the residences of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas leader. Hamas officials said Zahar's home was damaged by two rocket propelled grenades.
Hundreds of security forces loyal to Abbas were sent into the streets to protect his compound and various security installations.
In all, 12 people were killed throughout Gaza, medical officials said, in addition to two others killed just before midnight Thursday.
Friday's dead included a two-year-old boy who was fatally shot while traveling in a car in the southern town of Khan Younis. Hamas and Fatah officials accused each other of firing the deadly shot.
Both Fatah and Hamas officials said late Friday that unity talks would be suspended until the fighting ends. Both sides blamed each other for the breakdown.
"Following the awful massacres committed today ... we have decided to postpone all dialogue with Fatah," said Ismail Radwan, a Hamas spokesman.
In the West Bank city of Nablus, meanwhile, Fatah gunmen freed a group of nine people it had earlier kidnapped, saying they were Hamas supporters. The group, consisting of a religious instructor and his teenage students, was freed after several hours.
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Firs we pray for peace for Yerusalem.
Second we pray for the protection of God's people and land third we pray for the Jews to accept their messiah Yeshua(Jesus)
fourth we pray that the blindness of the gentiles concerning Israel is lifted.
Shalom Chuck.
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Genesis 16-10And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; F77 because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. It seems to be a pattern with these people. If they can't terrorise the innocent, they turn on each other.
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Genesis 16-10And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; F77 because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. 12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. It seems to be a pattern with these people. If they can't terrorise the innocent, they turn on each other.
Just for your info, Palestinians are not descendants of Ishmael.
Palestinians are a mixture of different entities such as egyptians, syrians, iraquis and iranians but for the most part they are Jordanians who descend from the daughters of Lot when they had sex with their father lot and bore 2 children, this is where Jordanians come from.
The true Ishmalites are the Saudis and beduain arabs.
But the conflict seems to be with those who called themselves arabs and are not such as Iraquis and Iranians which are Medes and persians.
Just thought I clear that up.
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