Hamas: Corruption and security coordination make the PA fear popular uprising

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GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement said that corruption and ties with the Israeli occupation state are the reasons for the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority's fears of any popular revolt against its regime in the West Bank.

"The authority in Ramallah has fear that the winds of change may blow out into the occupied West Bank because the Fatah-affiliated regime is known as the most corrupted governments in the region and it also has links and cooperation with the occupation against our people's interests," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri stated.

Spokesman Abu Zuhri in a statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Friday stressed that this corruption and security coordination with Israel were further vindicated by Al-Jazeera papers that exposed the size of concessions made on the Palestinian rights and constants as well as the security cooperation with the Israeli occupation.

He emphasized that the Palestinian resistance factions are demanded to overthrow Mahmoud Abbas and his authority once and for all.

Hamas: Corruption and security coordination make the PA fear popular uprising

 

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'Full Blown Military Confrontation' Nears...

Israel and Hamas near a Spring war
April 2, 2011, After nearly two months of rising tension, Israel and Hamas have taken a step towards a full-blown military confrontation: Before dawn Saturday, April 2, an Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades gunmen in the Gaza Strip in an operation described by an Israeli army spokesman as pre-empting a major Palestinian terror-cum-kidnap campaign scheduled for Passover. A fourth Palestinian was seriously injured by the airborne missile which struck their car between Khan Younes and Deir el Balakh.

The Hamas Brigades warned Israel its "dangerous escalation" would have "consequences." debkafile's military and intelligence sources predict that the war confrontation which Saturday brought closer to realization will be unlike any previous Israel-Palestinian showdowns in the sense that it will be less the product of the old Middle East order and fall more under the influence of the radical elements rising out of the current Arab unrest, especially in Cairo, amid the decline of Western influence. Hamas may also resort to jihad against "the Israeli enemy" as a distraction from the rising disaffection of the Gazan population against its increasingly repressive methods of enforcing ever stricter Islamic decrees.

Saturday, after nearly two months of heightened Palestinian terrorist activity and low-key Israeli reprisals, both sides dropped their long pretense of seeking calm. Ever since the massacre of five members of an Israeli family at Itamar on Feb. 11, Israeli government leaders have tried to sell the line that Hamas was not really seeking to raise the level of violence. They continued to play down Hamas' motives through a 50-round mortar barrage in a single day (March 19) on Israeli civilian locations abutting the Gaza Strip, several Grad missiles fired at the towns Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba and Netivot and a bombing attack in Jerusalem on March 23, which killed a tourist and injured 65 after two relatively terror-free years.

In between major attacks, the Palestinians have maintained up until the present a steady trickle of Qassam and mortar fire against Israeli civilians. While intensifying its attacks, Hamas picked up the convenient Israeli mantra which claimed that the terrorist-rulers of Gaza wanted nothing but a ceasefire which would also embrace all the smaller terrorist organizations taking part on the shooting as well. The Israeli army statement after the pre-dawn air strike over Gaza Saturday abruptly broke that pose by exposing Hamas's true intentions for the first time. He admitted that the Palestinian radicals had set up a major murder-cum-kidnap campaign for striking terror across the Green Line and favorite Israeli vacationing spots in Sinai, to be launched during the eight-day Passover holiday April 18-28, debkafile's counter-terror sources add that the three gunmen killed were only one tentacle of the network Hamas has put in place in Sinai, Jordan and on both sides of the Israel-West Bank border.

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RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Protests continue in Ramallah as youth await promised steps by Palestinian de facto president to free a list of men held for political reasons in the Palestinian Authority jails and demand an end to a media incitement campaign.

The meeting ended when Abbas promised to free the prisoners who have already been ruled as free men by the Palestinian Supreme Court. The protesters submitted a list of those names on Tuesday. They are also communicating with independent media organizations to inspect, monitor and try and end the current media incitement campaign.

The protesters are said to have been repeatedly attacked by elements from Fatah and the Palestinian Authority security agencies, as Fatah ”thugs” have beaten several of them and tried to set fire to their sit-in tent.

The PA has used several techniques to contain the sit-in and use it for Fatah interests, in a bid to thwart demands for a nullification of the Oslo Accords and for an end to security cooperation with Israel as well as the Israeli occupation and the national split.

Ramallah protests continue as Abbas delays freeing prisoners