The five, members of a group with close ties to the ruling Hamas movement, were killed late Friday in a neighborhood training ground for militants in Gaza City.Abbas is moderate only when compared to Hamas because Abbas seeks a long term destruction of Israel while Hamas has no qualms about trying to destroy Israel immediately.
The airstrike further raised tensions between Israel and the Hamas-led Palestinian government, and sparked a new crisis for its leadership, which is under heavy international pressure to renounce violence.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas was to meet later Saturday with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to try to iron out growing differences over the division of power and international relations, said government spokesman Ghazi Hamad.
Haniyeh has complained that Abbas has stripped the government of many of its powers. Abbas, in turn, wants Hamas to soften its hard line. The meeting comes at a time of growing a financial crisis resulting from economic sanctions by the West.
On Friday, Israel attacked a base used by the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella group responsible for numerous rocket attacks against Israel. At the time of the attack, militants were training in a field there.
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Saturday, May 06, 2006
Terrorists Lead Terrorists' Funeral Procession
The actual headline reads "Gunmen Lead Militants' Funeral Procession. Sorry, but people who were killed were terrorists. Hamas is a terrorist group, and those who take up arms in the name of the terrorist group are themselves terrorists:
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