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Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, on Wednesday declared that the truce with Israeli occupation is no longer valid after its assassination of Islamic Jihad commander.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 ceasfireÂ…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
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
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