Israel allows in Gaza fugitives Israel has allowed 180 members of a beleaguered clan loyal to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to enter its territory from the Gaza Strip. The Fatah faction supporters ran to a border crossing after a day of bloody fighting with their bitter rivals Hamas, who control the territory. An Israeli army spokesman said some had laid down their weapons as they approached the crossing. The injured among them were sent to Israeli hospitals, he added. Fatah and Hamas blames each other for starting the fighting on Saturday, in which nine people were killed. Reports say that the clashes broke out during a raid by Hamas on the stronghold of a local pro-Fatah clan. Hamas had accused Fatah supporters of involvement in a bombing a week ago that killed five Hamas members and a young girl. Fatah denies this. An Israeli border commander, Col Ron Ashrov, said the Fatah supporters were allowed in after a group including injured people and armed men ran up to the Nahal Oz crossing. When Israeli soldiers went to open the fence, they came under heavy fire, presumably by Hamas, he said. The Fatah supporters were hand-cuffed and stripped for security screening as they crossed into Israel. Col Ashrov counted 22 injured among them. Israel opened the border after both Egypt and President Abbas asked for the Fatah supporters to be allowed in. The office of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Israel had agreed out of humanitarian motives. Hamas fighters had tried to storm the family home of the Hilles clan in Gaza City on Saturday morning, using grenades and mortars, reports say. A spokesman for the Hamas-run interior ministry accused the clan of hiding bombing suspects in its compound. "The Hilles family has become a military force and members of the family have been attacking, abducting and even killing people," spokesman Ehab al-Ghasin said. "We must put an end to their attacks on innocent citizens." The family denies the allegation. A clan leader and senior Fatah member Ahmed Hilles are among the people allowed into Israel. source
Fatah is supposedly very corrupt, but they are the less violent of the two parties. Many people wonder how Hamas was democratically elected if they are so violent. The world can thank Israel for the election of Hamas to power; after years of sham Israeli "negotiations" with Fatah, there still was no Palestinian nation, so the Palistinian people put their fates in the hands of Hamas.
I wonder, Hamas fight Fatah, now - they have Egypt as their "Brothers" in the border.... why don't they get Fatah fugitives to get inside Egypt and to protect them from the Radical Terror Organization aka Hamas who toked over Gaza? Isn't Egyptians are Arabs as Gaza citizens? This is so weird, that Israel let peoples that attacked Israelis with rockets and bombs get inside Israel country and protect them. Sorry, But I can't understand that. Israel need to get them Medicals ? where is Iran, Egypt, Jordan and all other Arab countries ? ..
"Israel isn't humanitarian" - The Fatah shouted this so many times. now they need our humanitarian help. because their "humanitarian" Hamas slaughters them, and the "humanitarian" Egypt doesn't care about them.
Really. As far as I know, Fatah is favored by Israel and the US over Hamas, which is the one who is constantly attacking Israel. Peace,