Palestinian Fatah-al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades group splits, with 40 percent defecting to Hamas – DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report ex

Hamas is taking over the terrorist operations for the "moderate" Fatah? The hard core terrorists are getting tired of being labeled "moderate", finally, and want to get back to the true business of killing women and children. Jewish ones, preferably.

DEBKAfile - Palestinian Fatah-al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades group splits, with 40 percent defecting to Hamas – DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report exclusively: "The breakaway Fatah rebel group based in the West Bank has turned its back on Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and his senior adviser Mohammed Dahlan and established a separate suicide terrorist militia. Called the Martyr Abu Amar (Yasser Arafat) Brigades, the rebel group’s new commanders are Hamas Gaza operatives Hussein Hijaz and Abu Hilas (Abu Maher). They also take orders, as well as explosive supplies and funds, from the Lebanese Hizballah.

DEBKAfile quotes Israeli military and intelligence sources as rating this split as extremely dangerous. It affords Hamas a prime strategic asset for escalating its violent campaign against Israel.

Hamas managed in the middle of its factional war with Fatah to infiltrate the opposition’s West Bank strongholds and persuade a large faction to secede from the Fatah group and establish a Hamas-controlled militia. Israel did not prevent this happening.

The result, our counter-terror experts report, is a Hamas launching pad on the West Bank, previously controlled by Fatah, for a mass suicide bombing offensive against central Israel, projected by the Iran-backed Hamas as the next stage of its missile campaign from Gaza. The new Martyr Abu Amar Brigades have been given orders to g"