Community | January 24, 2009 | 20 comments

Hamas says it's back in control of the Gaza Strip

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_hamas_back_in_control

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Bearded Hamas activists on Friday delivered an envelope with five crisp $100 bills to a veiled woman whose house was damaged during Israel's invasion of Gaza, the first of promised relief payments by the militant group.

In another part of the territory, a bulldozer cleared rubble and filled in a bomb crater where a week before a top Hamas leader had been killed in an Israeli air strike.

Since a truce took hold this week, ending Israel's three-week onslaught, Gaza's Hamas rulers have declared victory and gone out of their way to show they are in control.

They have pledged $52 million of the group's funds to help repair lives, the money divvied up by category. The veiled woman received emergency relief money for her two-story home in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.

Hamas, which is believed to be funded by donations from the Muslim world and Iran, said the emergency relief would include $1,300 for a death in the family, $650 for an injury, $5,200 for a destroyed house and $2,600 for a damaged house.

More than 4,000 houses were destroyed and about 20,000 damaged, according to independent estimates.

"We are in control and we are the winner," Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri declared this week, after attending the funeral of four Hamas gunmen.

But Israeli strikes destroyed all of Hamas' security compounds and most government buildings. Its top two leaders, strongman Mahmoud Zahar and Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, have not yet appeared in public.

Israel claims to have killed more than 700 Hamas fighters, while the militants say they lost about 280 armed men, the vast majority members of the police force killed in surprise bombings on the first day of the war.
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20 comments // Hamas says it's back in control of the Gaza Strip

  • evilsocialistbastard
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  

    • Problem is, they will never leave. They will hang onto their mission/founding charter/hatred of Israel until Israel is "driven into the sea" as the charter says... and are willing to sacrifice everything, yes clean water for their children, lives of their children. Any sensible person would leave, find a better life for their kids to get an education and some normalcy instead of their life of fear and terror. Yep, they get the parents of the year awards. They are too blind to see that Hamas does not have the interest of citizens or children as they cowardly hide behind them. In America its always been in a tragedy "women and children first to the life boats, first out of burning buildings. Shame on both sides for not truly finding a better life for future generations. Many Jews have left to come here because they are sick of the war. Palestinians hang on like a clinging vine even though that vine is wrapped around their necks.

    • 3 years ago
  • St_Alia_10191
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      St_Alia_10191  

    • I hope this illustrates to people why Hamas was elected to power. Hamas keeps the lights on (figuratively speaking). Those fathers and mothers don't give a fuck about dead Israelis when they have to worry about getting clean water for their children.

    • 3 years ago
  • hydrokat
  • gaiusfurius
  • mutedmajority
  • hydrokat
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      hydrokat  
    • mutedmajority:

      They should pay it all! It's their fault for using the Palestinians as Human Shields for their dirty work. If the Palestinians truly want peace they need to get Hamas and Fatah out.

    • 3 years ago
  • neocongo
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      neocongo  

    • The actual title of the article is:

      "Hamas says it's back in control of the Gaza Strip"

      It is clear how desperate Current.com is for right wing commenentators to let this slop rise to the top.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
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      gaiusfurius  
    • neocongo:

      LOL, the first title I have changed in a month, and you are on me, good job f head.LMAO You really ought to post something so I can be on you. I did see that number 1 you had the other night. I didn't have the heart to vote it down, so...I voted it up. In fact it was my vote that put over the top.Have a Good day a hole. lol

    • 3 years ago
  • hydrokat
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      hydrokat  
    • neocongo:

      Dude, I just dropped an article in the grinder about this Terrorist just going to be released from Prison. They gonna love Him back into circulation again. It's really scarey how ignorant the American Public is about the intentions of Terrorism. I'm disturbed to see Americans taking a side with these Terrorist Cults. They are lucky to not be investigated by the C.I.A. Who knows, maybe they will.

    • 3 years ago
  • hydrokat
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      hydrokat  
    • neocongo:

      You display Your ignorance by trusting either side in this thing. I'm neither right nor left and want nothing to do with these antiquated bastions of neer do wells and loafers getting paid to bring us into Slavery. Wake up Congo, your a tool of the libtard press.

    • 3 years ago
  • Liberal_Extinction
  • hydrokat
  • petarro
  • ejasun
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      ejasun  
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    • The Losing Battle with Islam, David Selbourne

      primary thesis is that the West has been doing a lousy job in confronting Islamic militancy and the primary reason for this is an abject failure to really understand where it is coming from, why it is so popular, and what it is searching for.

      Too often, Westerners seek to “understand” the movement without engaging it on both a empathetic and critical level, or they psychologize and dismiss it as some sort of “death cult” unworthy of any sort of engagement.

      http://atheism.about.com/od/bookreviews/fr/LosingBattle.htm

    • 3 years ago
  • paddock
  • Liberal_Extinction
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      Liberal_Extinction  
    • ejasun:

      Drop the bong, you've crossed the line between rational and dillusional. Look at the bright side though, you'll be accepted by the rest of the current.com terrorist apologists.

      You might want to add vierotchka, world peace, highr0ller, and white noise as connections so you can run with your flock.

    • 3 years ago
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  
    • ejasun:

      Are you joking? Have you ever read the Charter (goals) of Hamas? Their mission is and always has been to push all Israel's citizens into the sea.

      And how do you empathize with men who strap bombs on children? Hide under women and children. Honor killings. Rape. Marrying girls as young as 7?

      Yes, lets bring in our best Psychologists and have a group sit down . These are strong BELIEFS in their heads and you can no more change them than you can change beliefs of Christians, Catholics, Jews. But at least other religions do not support "death cults"

      Read something about these people before you make such ridiculous statements.

    • 3 years ago
  • akamaial
  • gaiusfurius
  • hydrokat
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      hydrokat  
    • gaiusfurius:

      Great Article Gaius. I don't care what the Libtards have to say. They'll Glom onto anything they can to see their own special interests fullfilled. Mislead and misinformed. The blind leading the blind. World Government is at Your doorstep, Islam is spreading it's hate and agenda throughout Europe. It's here big time in New York. The Police are stepping up enforcement of Jewish enclaves due to the rise of threats to the Israeli/Christian Communities.

    • 3 years ago
  • St_Alia_10191
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