Mere Rhetoric: Hamas Killing Babies And Wiping Out Fatah-Linked Families In Gaza, Preparing To Roll Fatah In The West Bank

Hamas forces are summarily executing Fatah-linked men in front of their families:

Gaza mother said Wednesday that her four sons were "executed" in front of her... Makram Yousif Dughmush said that when she and another woman attempted to rescue the men, security forces fired at their feet, leaving the second woman with a gunshot wound to her left thigh and Dughmush with two bullets in her leg... The group also blamed the reportedly inordinate response for the death of an infant girl, who was killed instantly after a shot to the head. Ihab Al-Ghussien of Gaza’s de facto Interior Ministry called the killing of the one-year-old child "unintentional," saying that she was "a victim of conditions created by the Dughmush family."... Dughmush said officers first stormed her house Tuesday at about 6:30 am before searching it.... Kafa claims that police opened fire directly at the young man as family members looked on. Kafa says she then watched de facto security forces shoot each person in the room,

They're suiting up in the West Bank:

The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas group called on Wednesday on militants in the West Bank to use force if security men loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction try to arrest them. Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, Hamas's armed wing, issued the call after it said Fatah security forces had detained two of its gunmen in the West Bank city of Hebron. "We call upon our people and the (fighters) to defend themselves by all available means against any attempt to arrest them by (Fatah security) services, which are now working as a unit of the Zionist army," the brigades said in a statement.

Presumably they're still deciding whether to take over the PA militarily or democratically. Not that it'll matter: the international community and the State Department is already getting ready to blame Israel for the impending disaster.

And before you start thinking that Israelis are going to get a respite: if there's one place where Hamas and Fatah agree, it's that terrorist attacks are especially awesome when the victims are Israeli schoolchildren (and yes, that was the official PA position - not the first time that those moderate darlings have officially celebrated mass murder). So even if they find the energy to fight each other for a couple weeks - which they won't - they'll get back to attacking Israeli civilians soon enough. If nothing else, it's a breathtakingly efficient way to get widespread Palestinian public support.

In the meantime: this should make it 14 weeks in a row, no?

References:
* Gaza mother witnesses de facto security forces execute sons [Ma'an]
* Hamas urges gunmen to fight arrest by Fatah [Reuters]
* Fatah: Help get Hamas out of W. Bank [JPost]
* Hamas says yeshiva attack 'normal response' to IDF Gaza op [Ha'aretz]
* Fatah group hails 'heroic' J'lem attack [JPost]
* Fatah official: Mercaz murderer 'martyr' [JPost]
* Abbas To Award PA's Highest Medal To Hamas Terrorist Responsible For Sbarro Massacre [MR]
* ANALYSIS: Gazans see attack on yeshiva as unusual achievement [Ha'aretz]
* 13 weeks in a row [Elder]