Attacks on Israeli civilians will continue

From Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, Jan. 26, 2006 21:33 Updated Jan. 28, 2006 16:36 By JPOST STAFF AND AP ...

Hundreds of Fatah activists, angry at their party's election defeat, entered the compound of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday to pray at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

...Outside the compound, known as the muqaata, some of the militants shot in the air and chanted: 'We came to you Abu Amar to forgive us for what happened.' Abu Amar was Arafat's nickname.

Jibril Rajoub, Abbas' national security adviser who was among the protesters, warned Hamas not to tamper with the security forces. "The security forces will stay. Hamas has no power meddling with the security forces," he said.

Earlier Saturday, thousands of angry Fatah activists, led by masked gunmen firing wildly in the air, marched in the West Bank on Saturday, demanding the resignation of party leaders.
Dozens of them made their way into the Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah Saturday afternoon and began shooting in different directions.

Some of the gunmen said they would no longer observe an informal cease-fire with Israel.
In the city of Nablus, about 2,000 Fatah members marched through the streets, led by dozens of gunmen from the Fatah-allied Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, who climbed aboard the back of a truck and fired in the air. "Al Aksa, from Rafah to Jenin, has stopped the cease-fire," one of the gunmen aboard the truck, Nasser Haras, told the crowd. "We are now no longer part of the cease-fire."

Following bloody clashes Friday night and Saturday morning between his group and Fatah, Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Hania, told his followers Saturday morning that, "weapons should be turned only against Israel. "Our battle is not against our own people," he added.


...Khaled Mashaal, the man who runs Hamas from his office in Damascus, ...outlined three goals: Reform of the Palestinian authority, sustaining its resistance to Israel and "arranging the Palestinian home...As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right," he said.

Mashaal indicated attacks on Israeli civilians would continue as long as Israel continued to target Palestinian civilians.