Friday, April 03, 2009

Hamas Denies Establishment Of Military Academy In Gaza

Hamas Denies Establishment Of Military Academy In Gaza
(NSI News Source Info) GAZA - April 3, 2009: A senior Islamic Hamas official denied on Friday the earlier Israeli reports saying that the movement has inaugurated in Gaza a military academy to train militants on fighting Israel. Ismail Radwan said in a press statement that the Israeli report" is false and inaccurate. It is just a poor attempt to justify the occupation's defeat during the war on the Gaza Strip." Palestinian militants from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) attend the funeral of fellow militant Mahmoud Hamdan in the central Gaza Strip March 5, 2009. An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinian militants, one of them Hamdan, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, said medical workers in the Hamas-controlled coastal territory. An Israeli army spokesman said the air strike targeted a group of militants who had fired an anti-tank missile towards a military patrol on the Israeli side of the border. On Thursday, the Israeli Jerusalem newspaper revealed that Hamas movement has established a military academy to train militants in Gaza on fighting Israeli in case the latter carries out another large-scale military offensive on the enclave. The Israeli army had carried out a ground, air and sea military offensive on the Gaza Strip that lasted for 22 days and ended on Jan. 18, aiming at weakening Hamas movement and other Gaza militant groups. "The occupation (Israel) is still stumble and confused after it was defeated in the war and tries to market a victory in order to rise the mood of its soldiers by publishing inaccurate and false reports," said Radwan. Hamas movement and its armed wing have been ruling the Gaza Strip since the summer of 2007, after it routed by force the security forces of the west-supported president Mahmoud Abbas.

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