Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Hamas has emplaced themselves on the roof of a Khan Younis hospital and has been exchanging fire with Fatah:
Hamas controlled the roof of the European Hospital and Fatah-allied security forces took up positions nearby. The two sides traded fire. About 15 children attending a kindergarten in the compound were rushed into the main building, hospital officials said.
On Monday, gun battles also raged at a hospital in northern Gaza and the strip's main health facility, Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
I'm sure members of the International Solidarity Movement and ICAHD will be arriving at any moment to throw their bodies in front of these hospitals and kindergartens!
Avi Issacharoff continues his excellent coverage of the Civil War here:
A Fatah security official confirmed the building had been fallen.
About 200 Hamas gunmen surrounded the compound, where some 500 Fatah fighters were holed up. Hamas fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at the building...
Hamas has told PA security forces they better stay home:
The warning said that any security official seen in the streets would be “suspected of participating in the injury of the Palestinian people†and will be at risk of injury themselves.
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I'm curious as to what Hamas' plan is with these hospitals. I haven't seen any explanation or speculation on it.
As to the previous commentless entry: "There is a fundamental difference between privately own companies and state owned ones, between market and state capitalism" may be a perfectly valid point but I sure don't remember anyone (let alone everyone) being so concerned about that distinction at the time.