Hamas decides to go for broke

[King_David]

Struggling to maintain the banner of ‘resistance’, the Gazan terror group is firing at Israel in the hope Ramallah and Cairo will hear its plea for help

Hamas’s decision to end a 20-month-long ceasefire with Israel last week was a result of the movement’s gradual decline over the past year, accelerated by the unity deal with Fatah which has left it teetering on the verge of collapse

Isolated by Israel, shunned by Egypt and battered by Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Hamas has decided to go for broke. True, it had used its massive missile arsenal with relative restraint as of Tuesday afternoon, but it nevertheless hopes that a new round of violence can reshuffle the deck and leave it with a better hand.




The Islamic movement’s distress calls — directed mostly at Ramallah — have intensified over the past week. With 44,000 Hamas civil servants out of work and without salaries as Ramadan began, Hamas foreign ministry official Ghazi Hamad convened a press conference on July 3 to warn that “the Gaza Strip is in grave danger and the unity government doesn’t care what’s happening here.”


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[Jefferson23]

1. Interesting, thanks for posting it. They are both going out on a limb. n/t

[King_David]

2. Yes

Lose lose lose for all.

[Jefferson23]

3. Terribly so, yes...more innocent people will die. n/t

[azurnoir]

4. Abbas demands Israel halt Gaza raids 'immediately'

RAMALLAH (AFP) President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday demanded Israel immediately halt its latest offensive against Gaza following a night of airstrikes and militant rocket fire on the Israeli south.

"Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas demanded Israel immediately stop its escalation and the raids on Gaza," said a statement from his office published shortly after midnight by the official WAFA news agency.

He also asked the international community "to immediately intervene to halt this dangerous escalation which would lead the region to more destruction and instability."

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=710889

Arab League seeks urgent UN Security Council meet on Gaza

CAIRO (AFP) -- The Arab League called Tuesday for the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the deadly Israeli air campaign against Gaza, Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi said.

At least fourteen people were killed Tuesday and dozens wounded in a number of attacks in the most serious flare-up in and around the Palestinian territory since November 2012.

An official from the pan-Arab bloc told AFP Arabi had "instructed the Arab League's UN representative to initiate urgent consultations within the Arab group calling for an emergency security meeting of the Security Council."

Earlier, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas asked the international community to "immediately intervene to halt this dangerous escalation which would lead the region to more destruction and instability."

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=711086

[Jefferson23]

5. Things are heating up, that much is certain..what a disaster. n/t