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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
In Gaza, Abbas's Fatah practices attacking IDF positions
2015-03-15
[IsraelTimes] Main Paleostinian faction, which is committed to agreements with Israel, is also working on rocket development, commander says

Fatah's armed wing in Gazoo carried out a military exercise last Friday simulating the takeover and bombing of IDF positions, the Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen reported Sunday.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades ended their training course, named after deceased Fatah official Ziad Abu Ein, with a show of force including a military march over an Israeli flag and a shooting range with a poster of Israel Defense Forces Arabic-language front man Avichay Adraee as the target.

During Operation Cast Lead, Fatah's armed wing grabbed credit for firing rockets at the Israeli cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, alongside Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and 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...
. Abul Abed, the commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Gazoo, told al-Mayadeen that his men were not only bettering their combat skills but also improving their rocket launch capabilities.

"With regard to the development of rockets, there have been serious developments and serious experiments carried out daily," Abul Abed said.

The training focused on physical exercise, combat skills, and Islamic doctrine, the TV report said.

Fatah, the movement of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, which dominates the Paleostinian security apparatus in the West Bank, declared its intention to halt security cooperation with Israel in response to the death of movement official Ziad Abu Ein in an altercation with IDF soldiers during a peaceful tree-planting protest in the West Bank last December.
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