 Police in the Gaza strip say their superiors will not let them take on powerful crime families which are contributing to the anarchy gripping the territory. In the most recent incident, Palestinian medics say two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a car in the Jabaliyah refugee camp.
| I'm not sure that has anything to do with taking on the Barzini Family... |
The car reportedly belonged to members of the Islamic Jihad militant group.
| The Tortellini Family of Islamic Jihad, I'd guess... |
In central Gaza armed men loyal to the ruling Fattah faction ambushed a group of police and stole their vehicles after heavy exchange of fire.
| Perhaps the police should go to the mattresses? |
The men are part of an organisation that briefly kidnapped an Italian peace activist on the weekend.
| That'd be Fat Mustafa and Greasy Thumb Abdul-Aziz. They're affiliated with the Canneloni Clan... |
In the southern town of Rafah, police stormed a government building to protest against the growing lawlessness.
| Police... stormed... a... gummint... building... to... protest... against... growing... lawlessness. My mind just boggled. |
Earlier police and gunmen from a faction of the ruling Fatah movement exchanged fire in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip. There were no reports of casualties in that incident. |