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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Hamas facing difficulties with Palestinian militants |
| 2011-01-12 |
| [Asharq al-Aswat] ian factions are moving to reject Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s call for the continuance of a truce by rejecting that there is a truce in place at all, although they have agreed not to further escalate the situation, whilst reserving the right to respond to any Israeli escalation. The source within the Paleostinian resistance also claimed that Hamas is deploying plain-clothes security officers along the Gazoo Strip's borders in order to prevent any Paleostinian faction from firing rockets at Israeli settlements bordering Gazoo. However senior Hamas figure Ayman Taha refrained from answering questions put to him by Asharq Al-Awsat on this issue, refusing to confirm or deny that Hamas are deploying undercover security officers along the Gazoo Strip's borders to prevent escalation. However Taha did tell Asharq Al-Awsat that Hamas and the Gazoo government is seeking to achieve, through communications with the national factions, a comprehensive national agreement in the greater interests of Paleostine. Ayman Taha also stressed that Hamas succeeded in reaching common ground with other Paleostinian factions on how to manage the confrontation with the occupation forces. Taha praised the response of the Paleostinian factions, as well as the efforts of the Hamas movement and Gazoo government in this regards, stressing that all parties agree on the importance of not falling into the traps laid by the Israelis, who are seeking a way out of the worsening crisis that they are facing. Asharq Al-Awsat also spoke to prominent Islamic Jihad member Daoud Shehab about the position of his movement with regards to Hamas's request for adhering to the truce. Shehab told Asharq Al-Awsat that "a truce means an agreement between two sides, and there is no agreement. What was present was a ceasefire agreement following the war on Gazoo, and this ceasefire no longer exists." He added "Israel did not adhere to this ceasefire, and it continued its aggression and war against the Gazoo Strip in different forms...they have killed people, implemented a blockade, increased settlement activity...all of these are features of war." Shehab also confirmed that Islamic Jihad, which is the second strongest gang in the Gazoo Strip, had informed Hamas that "there is nothing called a ceasefire, but there is the resistance factions appreciation of the position and needs of the people of Paleostine...but this does not meant that the factions will stand idly by in the face of [Israeli] aggression." He added "Israel has escalated [its operations] significantly, and there is a difficult and dangerous trend recently from liquidations and different forms of aggression... the resistance has become necessity with regards to responding to such aggression, and that is our job." |
| Posted by:Fred |