Jerusalem - The Middle East Newsline has confirmed that Hamas military forces have begun training almost nightly at a facility in the central Gaza Strip.
The facility, referred to as Battalion 13, is located near the Gaza town of Khan Yunis.
Hamas captured the facility during its June 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian sources said Hamas' military wing, Izzadin al-Qassam, has been conducting live fire exercises nearly every night at Battalion 13. The sources said Hamas troops practice squadron and platoon maneuvers in full battle gear near the Mughazi refugee camp.
"Hamas has accelerated its exercises because of the ceasefire," a Palestinian source said. "The exercises start at the training ground but often move through residential areas."
Hamas has been joined by virtually every Palestinian militia along the southern Gaza coast. It has sought to improve coordination between its military and militia allies to counter any potential Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, expected by 2009.
The training involves between 50 and 100 soldiers each night. Hamas has accelerated recruitment and training as well as tested a range of weapons, such as rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and missiles.
Palestinian militias have been identified as the Iranian- and Saudi-sponsored Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Popular Resistance Committees and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Virtually all of their exercises have taken place in the area of the former Jewish settlements dismantled by Israel in 2005.
From Monkey in the Middle:
This is just the lull before the storm. Hamas is just waiting until the end of the "truce" before they start on their next wave of attacks. And what will the Israeli government do? Will they continue the failed policy of appeasement that Ehud Olmert championed? Or will they take the inititive and destroy Hamas? I hope it is the latter, but I believe it will be the former.
And what will happen to the people of Sderot and the Western Negev? What always happens. They will suffer daily attacks.
The time has come for the Israelis to ignore the ramblings of the leftist anti-Semites and to destroy Hamas once and for all time. For Hamas has vowed to not only destroy all of Israel, but to kill every Jew in the land. Every man, woman and child to "purify" the land for their use.
The West stays silent on this. The Israeli government appeases the terrorists. And the people of Sderot suffer the attacks.
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3 comments:
Gearing up for more attacks on innocents. Will they do it before or after November 4?
Debbie Hamilton
Right Truth
Good article Findalis. What will it take to convince not just Israel but the whole weak-kneed West that we must destroy our Islamist enemies before they destroy us? Words are useless. Treaties are useless. Are we really that cowardly?
"This is just the lull before the storm."
It always is. Have Hamas and the rest of the Pali terrorists ever used a lull in the fighting to take care of their fellow brothers?
"Or will they take the inititive and destroy Hamas?"
That would be really great, Battalion 13 sounds like a great place to drop a copious number of bombs, to kick things off.
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