...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
said Thursday Paleostinians "will not sit with their arms crossed" in the face of Israeli "aggression" against the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
He was speaking in Beirut after Israel blamed Paleostinian
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...at northern Israel.
Haniyeh, who arrived in the Lebanese capital a day earlier, met on Thursday the heads of other Paleostinian organizations as Israel threatened a military response to the rocket fire.
"Our Paleostinian people and the Paleostinian resistance groups will not sit idly by" in the face of Israel's "savage aggression" against al-Aqsa, Haniyeh said in a statement after the meeting.
Israel accused Paleostinian groups of firing 34 rockets from Lebanon on the Jewish Passover holiday, a day after festivities between Israeli police and Paleostinians inside Islam's third-holiest site.
The violence in Jerusalem was widely denounced by neighboring states and several Paleostinian groups vowed they would respond.
In his statement, Haniyeh called on "all Paleostinian organizations to unify their ranks and intensify their resistance against the Zionist occupation (Israel)."
Earlier, Israeli army spokesperson Lt. Colonel Richard Hecht said Paleostinian groups were responsible for the rocket barrage.
"We know for sure it's Paleostinian fire," he told news hounds. "It could be Hamas, it could be 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...
, we are still trying to finalize but it wasn't Hezbollah."
Hezbollah effectively controls southern Lebanon and enjoys good relations with Hamas, which rules in the 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, and the Islamic Jihad group also based in the enclave.