A Palestinian News Conference on Hadera

Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants attend a news conference in Gaza city, Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005. Dozens of masked Islamic Jihad militants held a news conference where they said they were celebrating the suicide bomb attack in the Israeli town of Hadera, a 'great victory as a message to our beloved Palestinian people and Islamic and Arab nations.'  (AP Photo/Adel Hana).

 

Gaza is now a place where terrorists hold press conferences.  With weapons (no Palestinian policemen in sight).  To celebrate killing and maiming scores of innocent people.

 And the Associated Press attends and takes pictures.

 The caption is a little inaccurate.  It was a joint press conference.  Khaled Abu Toameh, reporting in the Jerusalem Post on the open cooperation between Islamic Jihad and “militiamen belonging to [Abbas’] ruling Fatah party,” notes that joint Fatah-Islamic Jihad cells have conducted a series of attacks in the last 18 months, and have begun operating in Jenin and Nablus:

And in yet another indication of the harmony between the two groups, masked gunmen belonging to Fatah and Islamic Jihad held a joint press conference in Gaza City Wednesday night to claim responsibility for the Hadera attack.

The fact that such a press conference is held in public in the center of Gaza City -- and is attended by scores of journalists --  shows that the PA security forces have almost no control over what's happening in the area.

Toameh reports that the growing cooperation between Fatah and Islamic Jihad “has prompted some of Abbas's top aides to voice concern that Islamic Jihad elements would now try to infiltrate the PA security forces.”

Infiltrate?  They’ve been invited to join!  So there will be “one gun.”

Civilians helped wounded Israelis on Wednesday after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at an outdoor market in the town of Hadera.  (George Ginsberg/Reuters).

Comments

[RR]

From this morning's Jerusalem Post:

"What was surprising was the public support by some members of Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades for the bombing and their stated intention to also carry out attacks inside Israel in response to every initiated action by the IDF in the territories.

"The statements made live in front of the world media were in direct contrast to the condemnation of the attack by PA leaders. . . .

"The suicide bomber was identified as 20-year-old Hassan Abu Zeid, from the West Bank village of Kabatiya. He reportedly served time in an Israeli prison, but was released because he was classified as not having blood on his hands."

[Cynic]

There was this on WND
Abbas-linked group involved in Hadera blast
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47069
"Terror leader of Al Aqsa group promises more attacks to come"

"But sources close to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Abbas' Fatah movement, told WND: "Al Aqsa let Islamic Jihad take full responsibility so they could get the credit for retaliating against Israel's killing of their leaders. Jihad needs this attack. But Al Aqsa was involved, too."

The groups never operate independently of each other, nor of others such as Hezbollah, and that was the biggest lie Arafat perpetrated against the gullible, naive rulers we have.

[moe]

State terrorism is the worst kind of evil. you people use the holocoust as a mask to cover your treatment of palestinians. u have used suicide attacks, by a depserate and oppressed people, to discredit them. may allah destroy the double standard and hypocritical zionist. may Palestine become what is was 100years ago, and may all the non hypocritical and non evil jews, muslims and christians live together in peace.