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Islamic Jihad: We’ll hit back if Israel continues Gaza strikes

2021-06-20

[IsraelTimes] Terror leader issues threat if Israel doesn’t stop retaliating for balloon-borne attacks, end blockade on enclave; says Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
groups have already formulated plan of action.

A senior member of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
said Saturday that Gaza terror groups have sent a message to Egyptian mediators warning of a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful response if Israel continues to carry out strikes on the Strip in response to balloon-borne attacks that have burned crops and open-land in southern Israel.

Khader Habib told the Al Ayam newspaper that if the retaliatory strikes continue, as well as the blockade on the Strip that Israel says is necessary to prevent terror groups from building up military capabilities, "the [terror] organizations will respond in a similar fashion."

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Jihad leader: Resistance will respond to Israeli aggression

2011-04-02

[Ma'an] A senior Islamic Jihad leader said Thursday that the Paleostinian resistance would not fail or retreat and will always respond to any Israeli aggression.

Marking Land Day in the in Al-Shuja'iyah neighborhood of Gazoo City, Khader Habib said that "the resistance will reply against any Israeli aggression and they won't expect our reaction."

"The land is our land and Paleostine is ours," he added noting that Islamic Jihad wanted "true reconciliation that will protect Paleostinian rights and interests, we don't want fake reconciliation."

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Gaza factions offer truce, if Israel reciprocates

2011-03-27

[Ma'an] Paleostinian factions in Gazoo agreed Saturday to commit to a truce with Israel if its military stopped attacking the coastal enclave.

The decision was made at a meeting in Gazoo City, initiated by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, to discuss Israel's escalation in attacks on the Gazoo Strip.

Over the last week, Israeli forces have bombarded the coastal enclave, killing 10 Paleostinians including civilians and children. Dozens more were maimed.

Israel's army says it is responding to a barrage of projectiles fired by Islamic fascisti into Israel, which have injured one Israeli in the last week.

Hamas initiated the meeting Saturday, which was attended by representatives of the

Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine,
... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
the

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...
and several other parties.

Fatah and five other PLO factions did not participate.

Khader Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader, told AFP after the meeting that "everybody confirmed that they respect the national consensus by calming things with the Zionist enemy."

But he said this "depends on the nature of Israeli behavior, and we insist on the need to respond immediately to each escalation by the occupiers."

And Osama al-Haj Ahmed, a Popular Front leader, said "the factions confirmed their commitment to national consensus in order not to give the aggressors any pretext" for attacking.

Hamas already pledged on Wednesday to "to restore calm" in the coastal enclave.

"We confirm that our stance in the government is set on protecting the stability," Hamas front man Taher al-Nunu said in a statement.

"We will work to restore the field conditions that were prevalent over the last few weeks."

And Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas premier in Gazoo, said he had been making contacts with other factions "with a view to Gazoo avoiding new confrontations with the Israeli occupation."

In particular, he said he had spoken with Ramadan Shallah, the Damascus based chief of Islamic Jihad, which has grabbed credit for many of the projectiles fired on Israel in the past week.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel had been "subjected to bouts of terror and rocket attacks" and that "we stand ready to act with great force and great determination to put a stop to it."

Friday was calm, but the Israeli army said Paleostinian Islamic fascisti fired two rockets from Gazoo into Israel overnight and damaged a house. No one was injured, the military said.

As Netanyahu spoke on Friday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak toured the Gazoo border with army chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz saying calm seemed to be returning to the area.

And he indicated that if the rocket attacks stopped, Israel would also halt its strikes into Gazoo.

"We don't intend to let the terror organizations again disturb the order but we will do all we need to to return the [military] activity to the border line itself," he said.

In a visit to Israel this week, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Washington firmly backed Israel's right to respond both to the rocket fire and the Jerusalem bombing, which he described as "repugnant acts."

But he suggested Israel should tread carefully or risk derailing the course of popular unrest sweeping Arab and Mohammedan countries in the Middle East.

Gates pressed Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to take "bold action" for peace despite soaring tensions, saying political upheaval in the region offered an opportunity.

Some Israeli leaders have appeared reluctant to be dragged into another bloody war with Hamas, especially as they lack international support for any new offensive on Gazoo.

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Islamic Jihad vows response to Israeli crimes

2011-03-27

[Ma'an] Islamic Jihad leader Khader Habib vowed Thursday that the movement would respond to Israel's escalation in attacks against the Gazoo Strip.

On Wednesday, Israeli warplanes killed four members of the movement's military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, in an air strike south of Gazoo City.

The attack came hours after Israeli artillery fire hit a home east of Gazoo City killing four members of the same family, including an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old.

Habib said the attack on the Al-Quds fighters targeted the men as they left a mosque after performing evening prayers.

Let their guard down, did they...

He said the movement would resist as long as Israel continued its offensive on the Gazoo Strip. The primary aim of the resistance was to defend and protect Paleostinians, he said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
Habib said Islamic Jihad was deeply concerned by the arrest of several of its leaders and affiliates in the West Bank.

Jihad officials said Paleostinian Authority forces jugged Khalid Jaradat and Tareq Qa'dan following Wednesday's blast in West Jerusalem that went off near the central bus station. The men were released Thursday.

Habib said the Paleostinian Authority's campaign against the party was detrimental to efforts to end the national political division. He said that the PA crossed a new line by arresting the movement's leaders. Habib demanded the release of all political prisoners held by PA security forces in the West Bank.

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Jihad, Fatah meet in Gaza

2011-03-22

[Ma'an] Islamic Jihad and Fatah leaders met in Gazoo city on Monday, following a Fatah invite, and discussed President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. He was one of the founding members of Fatah. Since no one would talk to him anymore in the wake of the Karine A incident, Yasser Arafat appointed Abbas prime minister in 2003. Arafat then proceeded to pretend there was no such thing as a prime minister and Abbas resigned in frustration in October of the same year. Arafat keeled over dead from AIDS the next year, and Abbas ran in the presidential election in January 2005. Fatah managed to split down the middle between the Greedy Old Guard and the Young Bloodthirsty Guys for the legislative elections, which threw the whole thing to Hamäs. This resulted in a Government of National Unity™, which worked about as well as those things usually do, and Hamäs soon beat up Fatah's goons and threw them out of Gazoo. Recently Hamäs points out, accurately, that Abbas' term as president has expired, but refuses to allow any elections to take place, which prevents him from gracefully stepping down. This the sort of thing we usually expect in Paleostine...
' planned visit to the coastal enclave.

The meeting was hosted in the Fatah offices in Gazoo City, where officials reviewed the current Paleostinian political situation and bilateral relations, according to a statement from Islamic Jihad .

Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Nafth Azzam said the meeting focused on ways to foster reconciliation, and set an agenda for continued meetings as efforts for unity go forward.

Alongside Azzam at the meeting were Khader Habib, and Khaled Al-Batsh. For Fatah, those present included Zakaria Al-Agha, Abdullah Abu Samhadaneh, Diab Al-Loh, and Hisham Abdul Razzaq.

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IDF: Air strike destroys rocket launcher in northern Gaza

2008-11-09

An Israel Air Force strike on Saturday destroyed a rocket launcher set to fire at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, an Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman said.

Local residents said the launcher was set to go off remotely and no one was wounded.

Earlier on Saturday, IDF soldiers exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip, Hamas sources and Palestinian medical workers said, in the second violent incident this week to rupture the calm of a truce since June.

Palestinian ambulances rushed to the area near the town of Khan Yunis where Israeli troops had entered drawing fire from Islamist Hamas gunmen deployed in the area, medical workers and Hamas sources said.

The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a series of rocket attacks on Israel on Friday, on the third consecutive day of renewed rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.

Gaza militants pounded southern Israeli territory on Friday with nine Qassam rockets.

Two of the homemade rockets struck an open field south of Ashkelon, others struck areas in the western Negev. There were no injuries or damages reported in any of the Qassam attacks.

An Islamic Jihad spokesman said the group would consider stopping launching rockets if Israel ceased its actions. "It depends on Israel, if they stop their aggression and abide by the truce we are ready to consider stopping firing," Abu Ahmed of the Islamic Jihad armed wing said.

Islamic Jihad said its gunmen had launched 14 rockets against Israel during the day in response to IDF operations in the area.

The rocket fire began in response to a mid-week IDF raid on the Gaza Strip that killed six Palestinian militants.

The IDF said it carried out the operation after learning Hamas was digging a tunnel between Gaza and Israel to use in an attempt to abduct soldiers.

The renewed hostilities represent the worst fighting between the IDF and Gaza militants since a cease-fire in the coastal territory took effect in June.

On Thursday, Gaza militants fired four Qassams at southern Israel.

Late Wednesday, an Israel Air Force strike targeting a Qassam firing squad in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least one Palestinian gunman. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad identified the casualty as a one of their own.

Islamic Jihad militants on Wednesday fired two rockets at the western Negev town of Sderot. One of its leaders, Khader Habib, declared the truce over.

Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers sought to contain the fallout from the fighting, but the continued flaring up of violence threatened to unravel it anew.

Neither side seems to have much to gain from a renewal of hostilities, and officials on both sides said they wanted to restore calm.

Hamas, which agreed to the Egyptian-mediated truce, said Israel was breaching it. The group also claimed responsibility for dozens of rockets fired at the western Negev on Wednesday.

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Hamas, Jihad meet Cairo officials to discuss truce, opening Rafah crossing

2008-03-07

Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives met with Egyptian intelligence officials in the Egyptian city of El-Arish yesterday to discuss the possibility of opening the Rafah border crossing and of reaching a truce with Israel.

After the meeting, Ayman Taha, Hamas' spokesman in Gaza, said that Hamas was open to a tahadiyeh - a temporary cease-fire - on condition that it be bilateral.

In addition to an end to Israeli military operations, Taha said, Israel must also lift the blockade on Gaza. Khader Habib, who headed the Islamic Jihad delegation at the meeting, said that Israel must also agree to a comprehensive cease-fire in the West Bank that includes an end to arrests of suspected militants.

Israel opposes such restrictions. The Hamas delegation was headed by Mahmoud Al-Zahar.

Taha said that Hamas is open to having members of the presidential guard of the Palestinian Authority stationed at the Rafah border crossing, on condition Hamas be allowed to vet the list of personnel.

Taha added that the organization would also agree to the redeployment of European observers at the border as long as they lived in the Strip or in Egypt and not in Israel.

Senior IDF officers met with their counterparts in the Palestinian preventative forces in the West Bank yesterday to discuss ways to maintain calm in the territories following Friday prayers at the mosques.

Amos Gilad, who heads the Defense Ministry's military-foreign affairs bureau, is to meet in Cairo with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and Defense Minister Mohammed Hussein on Sunday to discuss arms smuggling from Egypt to Gaza via the Philadephi Route as well as new border crossing arrangements at Rafah.

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Islamic Jihad says Hamas-Fatah feud "very dangerous"

2008-01-02

Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement on Wednesday said the differences between Hamas and Fatah factions became "very dangerous."

To whom?

"What is happening in our Palestinian scene in Gaza Strip is very depressing," said Khader Habib, a Gaza-based Islamic Jihad leader.

Habib also criticized Hamas' takeover of Gaza Strip in June after fierce fighting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and the pro-Abbas security services. "Hamas takeover of Gaza was a disaster that hit the Palestinian people and their cause... our people's achievements are fuming and retreating and the cause turned from political to a humanitarian issue," Habib continued.

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Gaza: Hamas-Islamic Jihad clash kills 1

2007-08-02

Hamas opened fire on an Islamic Jihad stronghold in the Gaza Strip late Wednesday, setting off a firefight in which one person was killed, security officials said. The clash resulted from an incident the night before, when Islamic Jihad gunmen fired in the air in celebration during a wedding, both sides said. Hamas has banned firing weapons in public.

On Wednesday, Hamas fired a rocket at a house in Gaza City and traded fire with Islamic Jihad operatives inside, wounding 10 people, hospital officials said. One gunmen later died of his wounds, Hamas said. Gunfire could be heard for several hours.

Islamic Jihad leader Khader Habib said the raid was unnecessary. "I solved the situation at the wedding yesterday," he said.

Hamas said in a statement that the Islamic Jihad operatives were ordered to hand over their weapons but failed to do so, and "we implemented the law."

The incident is an indication of growing animosity between the two extremist Islamic groups, now that their common enemy, has been vanquished. Hamas has pledged to keep the streets of Gaza safe, a contrast to the gang warfare and widespread crime that was prevalent while Fatah was in control, and appears to be sending a signal to other armed groups that they must buckle under to Hamas rule.

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Fatah accepts Egyptian initiative to end fighting with Hamas

2007-01-29

(Xinhua) -- A leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said on Sunday evening that Fatah movement led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted an Egyptian initiative with the aim of ending infighting with the ruling Hamas movement. Kayed al-Ghoul, who is also a member of the higher committee of Palestinian factions, disclosed that his movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) have drawn up the new plan along with the Egyptian security team. "We are waiting to hear Hamas reaction to the plan," al-Ghoul said.

Meanwhile, Khader Habib, a local leader of the Islamic Jihad, told Xinhua that Hamas was also likely to accept the Egyptian proposal. The five-article plan calls on the conflicting factions to withdraw their militants from streets immediately in a bid to end infighting and form a committee to investigate latest killings. The plan also urged all factions to trade hostage held by both sides and return to the national dialogue which was stalled due to factional violence. However, in spite of the new initiative, factional infighting continued in the Gaza Strip, where a member of Hamas-led Auxiliary Forces was killed in southern Gaza city of Khan Younis this evening, bringing the death toll from the factional clashes since Thursday to 24.

Also in Khan Younis, security sources said that a commander of Hamas' armed wing was kidnapped by Fatah gunmen regardless of Fatah's approval to the Egyptian initiative. Meanwhile, it was reported that Hamas, Fatah and the Palestinian government have all expressed welcome to an offer by Saudi Arabia to host talks among fighting rivals under sponsorship of the Saudi authorities.

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IDF Officers: 'Don't Agree to Kassam Rocket Truce'

2006-11-26

Five terrorist groups offered Israel a limited truce Thursday night in exchange for an end to IDF counter-terrorist operations. IDF offficers say Israel must not agree.

Islamic Jihad leader Khader Habib said all the major terrorist groups, including Hamas, had agreed to stop firing Kassam rockets at southern Israeli communities on the condition that Israel cease all counter-attacks in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

The truce includes only Kassam rocket attacks, Habib said. Other forms of terror activity, such as cross-border raids, suicide bombings and kidnappings would continue unabated.

Senior IDF officers said that ending IDF offensives in Gaza would cause great damage to the fight against terrorism, and would enable the terrorists to re-arm themselves in anticipation of the next round of fighting.

No! You don't say?

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Israel rejects Palestinian offer to halt rocket fire

2006-11-25

GAZA CITY - A proposal from Palestinian factions to stop rocket attacks in exchange for an end to Israeli offensives in Gaza and the West Bank was rejected as inadequate by Israel on Friday. Just hours after a spokesman for the ultra-radical Islamic Jihad made the offer following an overnight meeting between rival factions, a Hamas militant was killed during ongoing Israeli operations in the northern Gaza Strip.

We are getting nothing from these rockets because nothing they achieve matches the force and power of the Israeli response, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas declared in Gaza City late Thursday. We talked about the rocket fire. There is an agreement to stop the fire in exchange for a halt to Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, the Jihad spokesman said after inter-faction talks.

This idea will be transmitted to the Israelis by Abu Mazen (Abbas). If they accept, there will perhaps be a stop to fire on Israeli towns but not a general truce, Khader Habib added.

The Crips call a truce, the Bloods keep shooting. We've seen this movie before.

But Israel did not accept the offer, with government spokeswoman Miri Eisin describing it as a partial ceasefire impossible to take seriously. The suggestion concerns a partial ceasefire, limited to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in exchange for a total halt to Israeli operations on all fronts. This is not serious, she told AFP.

Israel has always aspired to an end to violence and we count on a change of attitude from the Palestinians and primarily Hamas in order to give development a priority in the Gaza Strip instead of continued attacks, she added.

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