[Asharq al-Aswat] A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leader on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out "countless holocausts" against the Paleostinians while saying the Nazi genocide was a "lie."Mahmud Zahar made the remarks during a memorial ceremony for 43 Paleostinians who were killed at a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp during Israel's 22-day war on Gazoo that began in December 2008.
"The lie according to which they were a victim of a holocaust and the (Jewish) people are a victim -- this lie has crumbled with the holocaust of Beit Hanun, the holocaust of Al-Fakhura and the other countless holocausts ... committed by the Zionist enemy," he said.
Zahar was speaking on the second anniversary of an Israeli air strike on the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society' Al-Fakhura school in the northern Gazoo Strip.
The incident was one of the deadliest in Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" offensive, which left 1,400 Paleostinians dead, most of them civilians, along with 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.
Before an audience that included members of the Hamas leadership in Gazoo, Zahar paid tribute to those who died in the school where they had taken refuge from the heavy fighting.
... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
"The blood that was shed in Al-Fakhura and in every inch of Paleostine will not be in vain," he said.