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The TruceFire is Off (The other one)

2007-02-22

Article from PIC – Typical slanted verbiage but a nice photo of “the man of the hour” at link. GAZA, (PIC)-- The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, on Wednesday declared that the truce with Israeli occupation is no longer valid after its assassination of Islamic Jihad commander. The Martyr parade will be at noon followed by a reception and luncheon. Participants are encouraged to bring their own refreshments and ammunition. As a reminder, Seething-Counselors will be available - but only until sundown. Abu Obaida, the Qassam spokesman, said in a press release commenting on the assassination of Mahmoud Qassem, the commander of the Quds Brigades the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, said that the "Zionist enemy was trying to partition the country and trying to differentiate in the ceasefire between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This crime falls in line with a plan to liquidate Palestinian resistance in the West Bank in particular," he said, recalling that a long convoy of martyrs fell as a result of this scheme. So there was a ceasfire who knew? He hoped that Palestinian resistance would unite in retaliating to "Zionist violations", and championed establishing a joint operations room after joint raids proved their success. Abu Obaida asserted that the Qassam Brigades were re-organizing their lines in the West Bank after sustaining painful strikes at the hands of IDF IOF. The AMB, armed wing of Fatah faction, vowed to retaliate to the "cowardly" assassination of Qassem. It affirmed that the crime would not pass unpunished and described the truce with the IDF IOF as no longer relevant. Nafez Azzam, one of the Islamic Jihad leaders in the Strip, said that the "Zionist occupation does not want stability in the region". Commenting on the same assassination, said that resistance is the only available option before the Palestinian people in face of the Israeli offensives. The Quds Brigades fired two "upgraded" Quds missiles at Sderot and Majdal in the 1948 occupied lands near the Strip as a preliminary retaliation to the assassination of Qassem. Ahmed Abul Reesh Brigades, an offshoot of the Fatah faction, said that it fired three homemade Amre-2 rockets at the Kissufim military outpost in response to IOF crimes in lines of the Palestinian people. There were no reports of “glorious strikes”. That should be an indication that their rockets may need further “upgrading”. Meanwhile, the IDF IOF troops did not cease their daily incursions in the West Bank cities and villages and stormed at dawn Wednesday Qabatia town east of Jenin city. Villagers told PIC correspondent that 15 army jeeps burst into the town's center and broke into a number of homes looking for "wanted" terrorists activists. They said that the IDF IOF soldiers arrested two brothers of the wanted terrorist activist Mahmoud Nazzal, commander of the Quds Brigades in the town, in an attempt to pressure him into giving himself up, and the brother of the terrorist detainee Yousef Nazzal, who is charged with leading the Nasser Salahuddin Brigades in the Jenin district.

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Middle East

Killer factions starting to coordinate?

2002-11-14

Zionist military sources have viewed with concern a recent joint communiqué issued by four Palestinian armed factions that cooperate in launching resistance attacks against Zionist targets. The sources said that those armed factions assist each other in a bid to launch stronger operations against selective Zionist targets, noting that a number of such joint operations were carried out during the Aqsa intifada. The Zionist concern followed a military communiqué issued by the Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Hamas Movement, Quds Brigades, military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement and each of Nasser Salahuddin Brigades and Martyr Ahmed Abul Reesh Brigades, two military groups close to the Fatah Movement. When they're not killing kiddies in their beds, they're writing communiques. Don't these people have anything else to do? The communiqué, which was issued last Sunday, underlined that the Palestinian people's willpower was more solid than ever especially with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. It noted that one Zionist government after the other were collapsing in face of the resistance's painful strikes in a clear indication of the Hebrew state's ordeal. "On the other hand we witness our people nearing victory more than ever before", the statement said, pointing to the continued sacrifice of blood, demolished houses, siege, displacement and starvation over the past two years. One Zionist government after another collapses, to be replaced by one that's more willing to thump the Paleos... The statement warned of any attempt to block resistance elements from reaching their targets and launching their legitimate right in resisting occupation under unrealistic justifications or slogans. It affirmed the Palestinians' right to fight occupation, noting that the intifada had led to a an unprecedented balance with the Zionist enemy that was never reached before in history of the Arab-Zionist conflict. Presumably this communique is directed at the PA. "Nearing victory" means standing in the midst of rubble and poverty and making faces. When they talk about "unprecedented balance" with the Zionists, they're not talking about the number of Nobel prizes Paleos have received... The statement advocated organized resistance and demanded an end to random and ineffective firing at tanks and fortified positions or shooting in funerals and marches. It also demanded an end to hurling the locally made small explosive devices at tanks and fortified positions and to retain them for use in confronting Zionist incursions. Conserve ammunition? Why? There's a shortage? Just ask Arabia, and they'll send more... The statement also asked all fighters to confront Zionist incursions and attempts to demolish houses with all available means. Firing of missiles and mortar shells should be organized as a deterrence benefiting from the experience of the Lebanese Hizbullah party in South Lebanon when Katyusha rockets served as a deterrent weapon against Zionist shelling of civilians.

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Middle East

Fatah military wing murdered resistance fighter

2002-07-18

Martyr Ahmed Abul Reesh Brigades, military wing of the Fatah Movement, issued a statement in Rafah declaring responsibility for liquidating agent Abdul Hai Al-Sababi in court. They bumped him off in the courtroom. What was the former definition of "travesty"? The statement was issued after Abdul Razak Al-Majayda, chief of general security in the Gaza Strip, issued orders for the arrest of those who executed Sababi. Elements in Abul Reesh Brigades said that they intentionally issued that statement after the preventive security apparatus in Gaza issued orders for arresting Mujahideen from the Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, believing that they had carried out the execution. The chief of General Security seems to be a separate office from that of the chief of Preventive Security. There's a certain tone here that says Mr Chief of General Security is meddling where he's not wanted and should butt the hell out... The statement said that the Brigades presented the liquidation operation as a gift to families and children of the martyrs who were killed as a result of that agent's collaboration with Zionist intelligence. "Oooh! A gift? For us? Look, children! It's a mutilated body! Say 'thank you' to the nice man in the ski mask..." The statement noted that occupation choppers [Israeli helicopters] tried to create a state of chaos during Sababi's trial through firing at a street near the court hoping to allow him opportunity to flee from his prison. The statement also hailed the Qassam Brigades and families of the martyrs for their self-restraint out of keenness on national unity and sovereignty of the law. It urged for constructive security cooperation between the Palestinian Authority's security apparatuses and resistance factions and advocated caution and protection for all strugglers and Mujahideen. Ohmigawd! He said "Palestinian" and "self-restraint" in the same sentence and his lips didn't crisp... "Sovereignty of the law"? They murdered a guy in the courtoom...!

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