Iran takes sides in Palestinian civil war

Jerusalem Post:

Palestinian security forces arrested seven Iranian citizens during a raid Thursday night at the Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold in Gaza City, a security official said.

According to reports, another Iranian citizen committed suicide during the raid.

The raid came during a large-scale assault by Fatah-affiliated gunmen on the university, which followed a day of gunfights between Hamas and Fatah gunmen throughtout the Gaza Strip.

The new wave of street battles killed at least six people, one of them a security officer, wounded dozens, and effectively destroyed a three-day-old truce that brought a brief period of quiet to the volatile area.

The violence broke out in the central Gaza town of Bureij on Thursday afternoon after Hamas gunmen hijacked a convoy delivering supplies to the Fatah-allied security forces, security officials said.

Security reinforcements were seen flooding into the town.

Soon after, separate gun battles broke out in Gaza City and in northern Gaza outside a military intelligence post. Security officials said Hamas gunmen fired a rocket was fired at the post.

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Most of this fighting is under what passes for a truce among the Palestinians. The story provides no additional information on the Iranians, but it is reasonable to assume they are part of Iranian special forces sent to help Hamas in its civil war with Fatah. Iran has made on secret of its financing of the Hamas death cult. It would not surprise me to learn that the Iranians had a similar function as the ones recently captured in Iraq.

Haaretz describes the Iranians as weapons experts and indicates that 1400 rifles and missiles were found during the raid.

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