Palestinian Non-Civil War Watch - Insanity (Updated: Content Warning)

Update describing the murder of Fatah commander Jamal Abu Jadian buried at the bottom, with content warning for graphic - and frankly stomach-turning - violence.

Original: Umm...

* 2 UN workers, 14 Palestinians total die as Hamas seeks Gaza conquest - Think there will be the same global outcry as when Israel accidentally hit a UN compound that Hezbollah was launching rockets from? We don't. Hamas is now militarily in control of most of the Gaza Strip, with the death toll around 50. Check this out:

One civilian was killed when some 1,000 Palestinians marched through Gaza City chanting "stop the killing" - only to draw gunfire from Hamas militants at a nearby police station seized from Fatah a day earlier.

That's one way to stop protesters. Not the Western-approved way, but we're not sure they're interested in that way.

* Despite giving Fatah forces a 2 day ultimatum to turn over their weapons, Hamas is systematically sweeping through the Gaza Strip, rooting out and eliminating final pockets of Fatah resistance.

* Some choice selections from the Ha'aretz ticker:

15:33 - Hamas blows up Preventative Security HQ in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza (Haaretz) 15:28 - Hamas, Fatah gunmen exchange fire in West Bank city of Nablus (AP) 14:36 - Hamas threatens to invade Abbas` compound in Gaza City (AP) 14:33 - Four Fatah men from National Security Forces killed in Gaza fighting (Haaretz)

* In Nablus (that would be in the West Bank, where fighting is not supposed to spread to), Fatah is on the offensive and attacking Hamas institutions and officials.

* Mass murder:

Hamas militants blew up a tunnel under a security headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killing 13 members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s preventive security service, an aide to Abbas told Reuters.

We have a takeaway about how you shouldn't excuse years and years of terroristic tactics just because they're targeted (during that time) against Jews - lest they eventually be turned against non-Jews - but eh.

Update (06:15 PST): Seriously, who does this?

Jamal Abu Jadian, a top Fatah commander, fled his home in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening dressed as a woman to avoid dozens of Hamas militiamen who had attacked it... But when Abu Jadian arrived at a hospital a few hundred meters away from his house, he was discovered by a group of Hamas gunmen, who took turns shooting him in the head with automatic rifles. "They literally blew his head off with more than 40 bullets," said a doctor at Kamal Udwan Hospital.

Loathsome. Utterly loathsome.

Previously:
* Palestinian Non-Civil War Watch - Fatah Soldiers Trying To Kill Hamas Prime Minister (Updated and Bumped: Hamas Militarily Conquering Gaza, Abbas Calls It A "Coup")
* Iran Funding All Sides Of Palestinian Non-Civil War
* Palestinian Non-Civil War Watch - Now They're Throwing Each Other Off Roofs

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