Hamas Has Begun Executions, Arrests of Fatah Members In Gaza - 35 Executed

Hamas, getting desperate and obviously shitting in their pants, have decided to take out their dire situation on Fatah members in the Gaza Strip - according to reports, 35 Palestinians have been executed by Hamas for "collaborating" with Israel and the consensus is that most of those are Fatah members. At the same time, Hamas has arrested dozens of Fatah and shot more than 75 Fatah members in the legs for supposedly being sympathetic to Israel's hammering of Hamas in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post has the details here:

Fatah officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post that Hamas militiamen had been assaulting many Fatah activists since the beginning of the operation last Saturday. They said at least 75 activists were shot in the legs while others had their hands broken.
Wisam Abu Jalhoum, a Fatah activist from the Jabalya refugee camp, was shot in the legs by Hamas militiamen for allegedly expressing joy over the IDF air strikes on Hamas targets.
"Hamas is very nervous, because they feel that their end is nearing," a senior Fatah official said. "They have been waging a brutal campaign against Fatah members in the Gaza Strip."

Meanwhile, sources close to Hamas revealed over the weekend that the movement had "executed" more than 35 Palestinians who were suspected of collaborating with Israel and were being held in various Hamas security installations.

Of course, this should surprise no one. Hamas hates Fatah. Fatah hates Hamas. Both groups are nothing but pigs. I've often said....round em all up, put 'em both in a 2 square mile area and let em kill each other.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised that Fatah and the Palestinian Authority haven't been sitting in via satellite on some Israeli meetings before this operation. I think Abbas has been more than complicit in the attack on Hamas - from the Israeli side, I think they believe Abbas can control the violence against Israel and if Israel can wipe out Hamas, then the Israelis (right or wrong) may feel that allowing Gaza to fall back under the PA is a helluva lot better than trying to occupy the Strip.

Hamas moves on Fatah 'collaborators'

The sources quoted Hamas officials as saying that the decision to kill the suspected collaborators was taken out of fear that Israel might try to rescue them during a ground offensive. The officials claimed that at least half of the victims were killed by relatives of Palestinian militiamen who were killed as a result of information passed on to Israel by the "collaborators."
Justifying the latest crackdown on Fatah, a Hamas official in Gaza City said that his government had received information according to which Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had instructed his loyalists in the Strip to start moving toward undermining Hamas.
"We will kill them all if they try to help Israel bring down our government," the official said. "We will hang Mahmoud Abbas and [former Fatah security chief] Muhammad Dahlan in the public square if they try to enter the Gaza Strip aboard Israeli tanks."
The Hamas official said that his security forces had launched a massive "preemptive" campaign aimed at thwarting Fatah's attempts to "spread anarchy and chaos." He confirmed that many Fatah operatives had been shot in the legs over the past few days by Hamas "to make sure that they don't help Israel."
Fahmi Za'arir, a Fatah spokesman in the West Bank, accused Hamas of "executing" a number of Fatah detainees. He said the Fatah leadership knew of at least two Fatah men who were shot dead by Hamas after being released from prison. He named them as Nasser Muhana and Saher al-Silawi.
Za'arir said that several Fatah members who attended funerals of victims of the IAF strikes were severely beaten by Hamas militiamen who accused them of collaboration with Israel.