Hamas West Bank cells ordered to launch terror war on Abbas forces, Israel (!)

DEBKAfile's military sources disclose that Sunday night, May 31, Hamas commanders in Damascus and Gaza ordered all West Bank cells to unleash a terrorist assault on the West Bank with bomb cars, roadside bombs, snipers and missiles. They were told to set their sights on all Palestinian Authority officials including Mahmoud Abbas as well as taking aim at Israeli cities north of Tel Aviv.

Our sources quote the Hamas directive as saying: "From tonight, you must go into action without delay against every Palestinian/Israel target within reach, using all the resources prepared in recent months."

The directive continues: "There are no limits on targets, the more senior, central and important, the better."

Israel's homeland defense authority was notified of Hamas' declaration of war Sunday as it embarked on "Turning Point 3", Israel's largest civil defense exercise ever, designed to simulate simultaneous missile attacks from Iran, Syria, Hizballah from Lebanon and Hamas from the Gaza Strip.

The new Hamas directive placed Sharon towns north of Tel Aviv squarely within its sights. A number of Qassam missiles are believed to be hidden in Palestinian towns in Samaria, northern West Bank.

1. In 48 hours, the fundamentalist Palestinian terrorists lost two top West Bank leaders in battle. Friday morning, May 29, an Israeli Border Guard counter-terror unit shot dead its Hebron commander, Abdullah Majid Dudin, when he resisted arrest.

Before dawn Sunday, May 31, a special Palestinian Authority unit killed Hamas' northern Samaria commander Muhammad Saman after a seven-hour shootout in Qalqilya.

Hamas leaders, convinced that Israeli and Palestinian security forces acted in conjunction to liquidate their top commanders, determined not to let this go unanswered.

2. They believe that the Palestinian Authority US-trained security force directed by Gen. Keith Dayton, is not up to much and a determined Hamas offensive would blow the Fatah-led force away on the West Bank as easily as its comrades were defeated in the Gaza Strip.

3. Hamas is worried by the way the US President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are cooperating, as their White House talks Thursday, May 28 indicated. Its leaders are also fiercely opposed to Obama's forthcoming address Thursday, June offering America's hand of peace to the Muslim world.

From their command centers in Damascus and the Gaza Strip, Hamas chiefs have concluded that the most effective way to scuttle the US president's Middle East projects and his diplomatic and financial backing for Abbas' Fatah-led administration in Ramallah is to set the West Bank on fire by a wholesale terror offensive against the Palestinian Authority and Israeli urban targets.

Debka, but this is at least plausible:

Hamas commanders in Damascus and Gaza ordered all West Bank cells to unleash a terrorist assault on the West Bank with bomb cars, roadside bombs, snipers and missiles. They were told to set their sights on all Palestinian Authority officials including Mahmoud Abbas as well as taking aim at Israeli cities north of Tel Aviv. Our sources quote the Hamas directive as saying: "From tonight, you must go into action without delay against every Palestinian/Israel target within reach, using all the resources prepared in recent months." The directive continues: "There are no limits on targets, the more senior, central and important, the better." ...Hamas leaders' decision to unleash violence was triggered by three events:

In 48 hours, the fundamentalist Palestinian terrorists lost two top West Bank leaders in battle. Friday morning, May 29, an Israeli Border Guard counter-terror unit shot dead its Hebron commander, Abdullah Majid Dudin, when he resisted arrest. Before dawn Sunday, May 31, a special Palestinian Authority unit killed Hamas' northern Samaria commander Muhammad Saman after a seven-hour shootout in Qalqilya. PA troops also detained 22 members. Hamas leaders, convinced that Israeli and Palestinian security forces acted in conjunction to liquidate their top commanders, determined not to let this go unanswered.
They believe that the Palestinian Authority US-trained security force directed by Gen. Keith Dayton, is not up to much and a determined Hamas offensive would blow the Fatah-led force away on the West Bank as easily as its comrades were defeated in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is worried by the way the US President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are cooperating, as their White House talks Thursday, May 28 indicated. Its leaders are also fiercely opposed to Obama's forthcoming address Thursday... From their command centers in Damascus and the Gaza Strip, Hamas chiefs have concluded that the most effective way to scuttle the US president's Middle East projects and his diplomatic and financial backing for Abbas' Fatah-led administration in Ramallah is to set the West Bank on fire by a wholesale terror offensive against the Palestinian Authority and Israeli urban targets.

Direct confirmation, no. But this fits....It comes from Geostrategy Direct.com - Bill Gertz.

Hamas, in ideological crackdown, backs Iran sponsors

ABU DHABI — Hamas has ended its tolerance of Sunni advocates of an independent policy that would reduce its dependency on Iran and Syria.
Hamas sources said Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Masha’al has begun purging the movement of senior members who sought to move away from Damascus and Teheran. The sources said Masha’al has already dismissed key officials, including his deputy.

The Kuwaiti daily A-Siyassa said Masha’al, under pressure from Iran and Syria, fired deputy politburo chief Mussa Abu Marzouk. The daily said Abu Marzouk demanded that Hamas diversify its military suppliers and seek support from Sunni Arab states, particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The sources said Hamas dissidents, supported by military officials in the Gaza Strip, began waging a campaign to decrease reliance on Iran and Syria. They said Hamas’s military determined that Iranian training and equipment were unsuitable in the war with Israel in January 2009.

“By relying exclusively on methods borrowed from Hizbullah, it [Hamas] lost the element of surprise upon which it was relying,” Hamas analyst Mumin Bsiso said.

The sources said Masha’al also fired another senior member who advocated a change in the pro-Iranian policy. The dismissed official was identified as Imad Al Alami, regarded as close to the Hamas military in the Gaza Strip.

The dismissals have sparked unrest within the Hamas leadership. A-Siyassa said Masha’al, said to receive tens of millions of dollars from Teheran, was ordered to stage the crackdown by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The newspaper cited IRGC chief in Lebanon, Hassan Mahdawi.

Masha’al has already replaced Abu Marzouk and Al Alami. A-Siyassa identified one of the replacements as Osama Hamdan, Hamas liasion in Lebanon and a new member of the politbureau.

The Hamas dissidents have argued that the pro-Iranian policy alienated the Sunni Islamic movement from Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Egypt has already accused Hamas of working with Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood to undermine national security.

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