GAZA (PIC)– Delegations from Hamas and Fatah Movements agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian-sponsored deal to end the unfortunate clashes that were initiated by elements of the mutiny trend within Fatah faction in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
The clashes according to eyewitnesses in the town started when suspicious elements of that trend gunned down a commander in the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas Movement as he was preparing to confront the IOF incursion in the town’s Al-Nahda suburb.
A delegation from the Islamic Jihad also helped the Egyptian security delegation in watering down tension in the city. The clashes claimed three Palestinian lives and wounded around 40 at least nine of them were in serious conditions hospital sources in the city affirmed.
The agreement stipulates the immediate pull out of armed men from the city’s streets and the removal of sand barriers installed by the warring groups.
A committee comprising the Egyptian delegation the Islamic Jihad Hamas and Fatah was formed to thoroughly and neutrally investigate the incidents.
Dignitaries and heads of clans in the city were also welcomed into the committee so as to help maintain peace in the town.
For his part head of the Egyptian delegation Brig. Gen. Burhan Hammad accused what he described as “satanic hands” of spoiling the Palestinian internal arena affirming “Those hands had become professional in igniting internal fighting in the Palestinian community”.
“The Palestinians know very well that the PA unity government is the only remaining hope for them to live in internal peace and thus losing such hope would have adverse repercussions on the entire Palestinian people; hence the PA unity government must be preserved and must be allowed to continue its national duties” Hammad added.
In this context Hammad called on those “playing with fire” to return to the Palestinian national line warning “If the fire is ignited it will burn the one playing with it first”.
He also reiterated his county’s commitment to help the Palestinian people resolve their internal problems peacefully and through dialogue only.
