GAZA: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian alleged yesterday that two of its supporters were wounded when the police of Hamas movement opened fire into the air to disperse a demonstration against Palestinian divisions.
Around 3,000 people attended the rally organized by the PFLP, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the communist People’s Party.
Waving Palestinian flags and the red banners of the PFLP, the demonstrators made their way through downtown Gaza City to Unknown Soldier Square, where they called for an end to the bitter Palestinian divide.
It was not clear why the Hamas police opened fire to disperse the crowd. Senior PFLP leader Jamil Majdalawi said he feared that the current divide, with hostile rival governments in Gaza and the West Bank, could become permanent.
“We are with Fatah and Hamas when they are right and we are against them when they are wrong,” he said. Hamas and Fatah have longstanding divisions that boiled over almost exactly two years ago, when Hamas drove Abbas’s forces out of Gaza in a week of bloody street battles.
Since then the two sides have made several attempts at reconciliation, most recently through talks in Cairo that have made little visible progress.
