Trivia question: Who is the author of the quote? Sadly for the Palestinians, this quote is most relevant today. Three children died in a deliberate assassination at the hands of Hamas, a murder that has shaken the territories:
Fatah supporters blamed their rivals in the Hamas movement for the murder of the three children of a senior intelligence officer.Hamas denied responsibility and promised an investigation, but Fatah activists were unconvinced. As they attended an emotionally charged funeral for the children in Gaza City they shouted slogans blaming the Islamic movement for the killings.
Coming a day after the Hamas interior minister survived an assassination attempt, the killings are expected to prompt more tit-for-tat violence between the two main Palestinian factions. …
In a region supposedly inured to bloodshed, the unprecedented assassination of children caused widespread shock. There can be no doubt that the children were the target as the car that was attacked was only ever used to drive them to and from the Greek Orthodox School in Gaza City and was never used to drive their father.
Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, Mr Balousha, 34, is known to have made many Hamas enemies when he took a leading role in Fatah’s attempt to crack down on the militant movement in the late 1990s. Mr Balousha, who survived two assassination attempts in recent months, said he could barely describe his feeling at losing all three of his children.
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