The news appeared in Maariv's Hebrew weekend edition on Friday Dec 16.
Maariv, using Palestinian Pal Press as their source, tells that Tahr Atwa, a senior Hamas functionary and a part-time commander in Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades left Gaza five days ago to cross to Egypt, using the underground tunnels system. Recently his family received an anonymous phone call from Israel. The caller who presented himself as an intelligence officer, told the family that Mr Atwa is in Israel and recommended that they get a lawyer.
It was nothing, of course, for our operative to get into the location where Mr Atwa is kept. During the whole interview Mr Atwa was seething with rage, mostly directed at Fathi Hammad, Interior Minister of Gaza (and a part-time commander in Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades)."Zionist lover, imperialist infidel lackey dog, the son of a thousand" were the mildest terms used by Mr Atwa to characterize Mr Hammad.
"I kept telling this ...[omitted] that the ...[omitted] tunnels have become a ...[omitted] maze and a man can easily get lost. We have to have a clear set of signposts put into the tunnels. The no good ...[omitted] has never moved his fat unwashed ...[omitted]. When I get, Allah willing, back to Gaza, my people will kill his ass, raze his house and ... [omitted] his wives and children..."
When our operative tried to placate Mr Atwa, telling him that he is, in all probability, not going home anytime soon and that Mr Hammad may expire meanwhile of a natural malady such as an acute lead poisoning, Mr Atwa's rage boiled over and his power of coherent speech was lost.
The Mr Atwa's jail officer, speaking on condition of anonymity (of course), told our operative that Mr Atwa keeps demanding to be provided with a bus ticket to Cairo and an exit visa immediately. "However, Mr Atwa doesn't have a passport for us to put an exit visa in and, besides, the only banknotes he offers in exchange for the bus ticket are Egyptian pounds. Counterfeited, too", the officer added.
Cross-posted on Yourish.com
10 comments:
Excellent. They only should all get lost in the tunnels. It would save a lot of trouble.
Israel is going through through with Stage Two of the prisoner release for some reason--the importance of keeping your word to kidnappers? So there is probably some hope for Atwa although Hamas is a little short of hostages at the moment.
Too late for Mr Atwa, I am afraid. He will have to wait a bit.
Well, there certainly is place for more in these tunnels.
The sewers in NYC had this trouble for a time. The city had to finally map out the whole system, put street signs and maps upon the walls and I do believe that there are emergency call boxes too.
Well that is what happens when you do not keep up to date maps of the roads that you are building, whether they are above or below ground. May other Hamas members follow in Atwa's footsteps, so to speak.
That's it, Katie. With time Gazans will come to the same conclusion.
The more the merrier, true.
Yep and beg the West for the Millions or is it Billions to do it with.
Oh, sure, that goes without saying.
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