GAZA,
February 1 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Reacting to
Israel’s killing of a Palestinian girl at a UN-run school in Gaza,
resistance factions threatened to resume attacks against Israel unless
occupation forces immediately stopped their “aggressions against the
Palestinian people”.
The
threat came just hours after a ten-year old Palestinian girl was shot
dead by the Israeli forces at a United Nations-run school in the
southern Gaza town of Rafah.
“Eight
resistance groups will resume their attacks against Israel if the
Israeli aggression does not stop,” a spokesman for the Islamic
resistance group Hamas said Monday, January 31.
The
statement, signed by eight armed factions, was issued in response to
the shooting to death of Nuran Dib by the occupation forces while she
was walking inside her school in the Brazil neighborhood of the Rafah
refugee camp.
The
Palestinian girl was struck in the head, one witness was quoted by the
BBC News Online as saying.
“She
suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, bleeding. The girls started
to run everywhere.”
The
dead girl’s mother told journalists: “We heard talk about a
ceasefire. But it seems there is nothing like that on the ground,”
the BBC News Online said.
“My
daughter was lovely. Today she went to school earlier than usual. She
said she wanted to play with her schoolmates before class.”
Another
girl was wounded in the hand.
Nuran's
death is the second such fatality in the area in two days.
A
65-year-old Palestinian man was killed by the Israeli occupation
forces as he was walking near an army post Sunday, January 30.
Violating
Ceasefire
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The
Palestinian factions warned they could not just sit and watch
Israeli continuous “aggressions”.
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In
their statement, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net, the
resistance factions accused the Israeli government of violating a
fragile ceasefire negotiated by the Palestinian leader.
“We,
the armed wings of the resistance factions, declare that we are
running out of patience. The enemy (Israel) is meeting our truce with
continuous aggression. We cannot allow the Zionist enemy to continue
its aggression and daily violations without an answer,” the
statement read.
Despite
the 11-day quiet period observed by the resistance factions, Israel
had shot dead 22 Palestinians, half of them were children, and injured
another 47 across the occupied territories, the statement added,
accusing the Israeli army of carrying out 33 incursions and detaining
196 people.
Israel
had also continued construction of its controversial West Bank
separation barrier, and blocked roads and checkpoints, it added.
“Any
hudna (ceasefire) cannot be successful without a clear answer from the
enemy to all our conditions, which include an end to the aggressions
and the release of all prisoners.”
“We
will answer all its aggressions,” the statement read.
The
statement was signed by the Ezz Edeen Al-Qassam Brigades (the armed
wing of Hamas), Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (affiliated to Fatah), Abu
Al-Reesh Brigades (Fatah), Fatah Falcons (Fatah), Abu Ali Mustafa
Brigades (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- PFLP),
National Resistance Brigades (Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine --DFLP), Saladin Brigades (Popular Resistance Committees),
and Ahmed Jibriel Brigades (PFLP-General Command).
Saraya
Al-Quds, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, did not sign the
statement.
However,
Abu Islam, a Jihad leader, told IOL that the movement supports the
stance of the Palestinian factions.
Following
a series of marathon talks with leaders of major resistance factions
in Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas (Abu Mazen) told the
Palestinian television that an agreement concerning a ceasefire with
Israel was “very soon.”
Palestinian
security forces started deploying Friday, January 21, across northern
Gaza in a bid to prevent the Palestinian resistance factions from
launching mortar attacks against Israel.
