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Sunday, May 16, 2010

OK, it's more of a "government" (with scare quotes), but anyway...yeah, it's not Israel, it's Hamas: Hamas destroys dozens of homes in southern Gaza

RAFAH, Gaza Strip--Hamas police wielding clubs beat and pushed residents out of dozens of homes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Sunday before knocking the buildings down with bulldozers, residents said.

Gaza's militant Hamas rulers said the homes were built illegally on government land. Newly homeless residents were furious over Palestinians on bulldozers razing Palestinian homes.

For years, Palestinians have criticized Israel for destroying houses, mostly because they were built without permits issued by the military. Now, Rafah residents complained, their own government, run by the Islamic militant Hamas that seized power in Gaza in July 2007, has done the same.

"They promised reform and change -- instead they've destroyed our homes," shouted Miasar Gan, a 54-year-old woman. Gan said she and her husband had nowhere else to go...

Hope and Change, Hamas style! Bwahahahaha! Someone call Jeff Halper and ICAHD...

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You won't find much coverage of Hamas' demolition of illegally constructed houses in Gaza, since Hamas has a done a good job in keeping the press away. Nevertheless, someone did forward me a link to this picture of one such... Read More

2 Comments

Who made the "bulldozers"—was it Caterpillar, by any chance? What do the BDSniks do if the PA and Hamas use Caterpillar machines too?

(Those aren't scare quotes. Besides denoting a particular kind of machine, the term bulldozer is a larger category. Lots of people call just about any kind of earth-moving machine a bulldozer—bucket-loaders, back-hoes, excavators, etc.—regardless of whether it's, in fact, a bulldozer, i.e., a tracked vehicle with a large blade in front.)

WHERE'S RACHEL CORRIE WHEN YOU NEED HER

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