8 Palestinians hurt in Hamas-Fatah gunfight

[drdon326]

Activists from rival groups clash during university election campaign

At least eight Palestinians were injured yesterday in the center of Nablus when a gunfight broke out between Hamas and Fatah activists.

It is believed to be the first incident of its kind since the start of the intifada.

The gunfight took place against the backdrop of elections to the student council of the Open Al-Quds University, based in the city's Rafadiyeh neighborhood.

Palestinian sources said it began as a brawl between Hamas activists, who were looking to set up a campaign booth on the university grounds, and Fatah youth, who wanted to stop them.

The brawl and shouting match soon turned into a knife fight, the sources said, adding a large group of Fatah activists then arrived on the scene and set fire to furniture and office equipment belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad opposition groups on campus. Shortly thereafter, the gunfight began.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=425435&contrassID=1
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Prelude to a future palestinian state....

start a discussion....finish with a gunfight.

Yeah....theyre ready for a country.

[aquart]

1. Has to be done, though.

They have to fight themselves for themselves. It's way past time.

It's scary how passive they've been, how easily they've let themselves and their children be used. How cowed whenever someone who wanted to make peace was murdered as a collaborator.

It's time.

[Vladimir]

2. "They" certainly are

if by "they" you mean Palestinians, then they most certainly are ready, as Iraqis are ready, as in fact Muslims in general are ready, willing, and able to govern themselves.

[Djinn]

3. yeah people who fight within their own ethnic groups

should NEVER get a country - where do you think that'd leave those who employed terrorist methods to ensure the ceration of the state of israel?

what does it say about Israelis who assasinate their OWN LEADER.

Pretty much is says nothing except maybe something about human nature (regardless of religious affiliation)