From AP:
Close to 100 Palestinian officials from the moderate Fatah group of President Mahmoud Abbas crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip in the early hours Friday, Egyptian police said.
Hours later, the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza also returned to Egypt after failing in its mediation efforts between the warring Palestinian factions, said an official at the Rafah border crossing.
The Egyptian border official said the delegation chief, Col. Burhan Hamad, and five other members were heading to Cairo.
Fleeing aboard a fishing boat on the Mediterranean sea, 97 senior members of Fatah’s security and administrative apparatus arrived in the Egyptian port of Arish hours after fighters from the militant Hamas group took control of Gaza, an Egyptian security official in Arish said.
The retreating Fatah members were transferred to camps affiliated to Egypt’s security forces, a police official in Cairo confirmed.
Flee you fucking cowards! Run away to Egypt where Mubarak’s Gestapo, your disappointed mentors, are waiting… Down with Fatah! Down with Dahlah!
I love the way AP is covering the events. Abbas’s Fatah are “moderates”?!!! Moderates!!!?! This reminds me of how the wires just love referring to Mubarak and Abdullah of Jordan, both bloody criminal dictators, as “moderates.” But after all, we know the barometer of “moderation” for AP and the other western news outlets is always how brown-nosed the Arab ruler is when he deals with Washington.
عاشت حماس الأبيه
عاشت كتائب عز الدين
ur absloutly right, Abbas is another american agent, of course we knopw anyone supported by America he works against his own people.
My impression is Hamas are good, honest people, but the big question are they going to tolerate the sanctions imposed on them from USA and oter (patriotic governments).
Of course Abbas and Fateh are group of gangsters,who would go as far as it takes to protect thier priveleges.
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen Fatah.
Indeed. The wires love slippery words like “moderate” that are pretty meaningless in most international contexts.
Of course, now that Hamas is winning, we’ll have everyone condemning them, supporting Abu Mazen, probably arming and funding Fatah. Sucks.
what matters to me is that the inter-factional fighting ends right now, there cant be any “winners” in this civil war,every one looses in this kind of struggle
When you get one side, who is funded/trained by the US, Israel, the Arab regimes trying to carry out a coup against those who reached power thru democratic elections… then I’m sorry, I’m not gonna sit like a duck and call for “national unity”… yes, I will support one side over the other..