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Yasser Arafat's security forces in the Gaza Strip, nearly all of them veterans of the battle against Israel, faced a new foe last week: the enemy within. They answered the challenge from Gaza's Islamic militants in precisely the same way that the Israeli occupiers had done -- bluntly, and with lethal force. By the time the bloody fraternal clashes had simmered down, 15 Palestinians were dead, another 200 were crowding the hospitals and hundreds more were behind bars...
...least seven armed groups of the Fatah Hawks, allies of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, have formed in the Gaza Strip as strike forces against the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants threatening to intensify attacks on Arafat's budding Palestinian government. Their threat comes in response to the shootingdeaths of 14 Islamic protestersby PLO police in Gaza City Friday. (Today, gunmen in a Gaza City orange grove shot and killed a Palestinian secret police captain, the first time an officer had been ambushed.)Arafat, in fact, interspersed dozens of masked Fatah Hawks at a rally of 10,000 supporters yesterday...
Israeli authorities had also made public a threat to liquidate the perpetrators of Islamic violence. Thus when Hani Abed, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad, was blown apart by a car bomb in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, Palestinian fingers pointed to Israel. Many Gazans also blamed Arafat, since the assassination occurred under his watch. At Abed's funeral, the crowd turned on Arafat, called him "collaborator," tugged off his kaffiyeh and forced him out the back door of the mosque...
...bitter divisions among his lieutenants. According to two senior Arafat aides in the territories, Farouk Kaddoumi, the foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, wrote to donor countries from the group's former headquarters in Tunis stating that since their contributions might be misused by the Palestinian authority in Gaza, they should consult him before paying out funds. According to a senior P.L.O. official, Arafat later met with Kaddoumi in Tunis and told him, "I am the head of everything the Palestinians own, and he who is not happy with the way I'm running things can go and drink...
More than 10,000 Palestinians filled Gaza City today as hundreds fired guns into the air to show support for PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,whose police killed 14 peoplewhen they fired into a crowd of Islamic activists Friday. "We support democracy, but we need security and stability to build our state," Arafat told cheering supporters. Butleaders of militant Islamic groupsopposed to the peace accord with Israel called the rally a provocation and said it could damage a shaky truce they reached through mediators over the weekend.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...