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August 25, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050824/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpulloutgaza_050824151402;_ylt=AsGZEe4d6I6dlE2w8g6ssSCaOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVR

Rebel Fatah Factions Thorn in Palestinian Leader's Side

(AFP/Yahoo) Abu Alaa, 33, who heads the Rafah branch in Gaza of the Abu Rish brigades, a subset of the ruling Fatah party, vows to rebel against Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's calls for peace. "We will take any chance to strike the Israeli army," he says. "We don't work under the Palestinian Authority. We work under our own agenda." Without a unified Fatah, marching firmly behind Abbas, it is hard to imagine him fending off Hamas and establishing an independent state through peaceful negotiations.

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