Fatah Hawks

Fatah Hawks

The Fatah Hawks is the name of two Palestinian militant groups, one a popular movement of Palestinian youth in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, the other an offshoot of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which has links to the dominant Fatah movement. The group has carried out attacks against Israel military personnel in the Gaza Strip.

During the First Intifada that started in 1987, the Hawks were led by young Palestinians in the large cities of Nablus, Tulkarm, Ramallah and Bethlehem in the West Bank, and Gaza City and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. Most of their attacks were carried out using improvised weapons; stone throwing, stabbing attacks, and use of stolen firearms. The amount of weaponry that they received from PLO sources outside of Israel was negligible, and most of their successes were in the use of stabbing attacks or roadside amnbushes of Israeli soldiers in the occupied Palestinian Territory.

They first appeared during the Al-Aqsa Intifada by claiming joint responsibility with Hamas for an attack on the Rafah border crossing on the Israeli military-controlled Egyptian border crossing with Gaza near Rafah on December 12, 2004, which resulted in 5 Israeli soldiers being killed and ten others wounded.Fact|date=August 2008

Following the Death of Yasser Arafat in 2004 the Fatah hawks suffered like many other Fatah based militant groups from increasing Palestinian apathy as the courupt and old faced style Fatah lost public confidence in favour of Hamas.

The number of attacks have decreased. The Fatah Hawks' last activity was in 2005 when Fatah Hawk gunmen blockaded a Palestinian road and prevented Palestinian National Authority (PA) officials from passing in protest at not being assigned to the PA security system.

External links

* [http://www.fatehfalcons.org/english/ Official website]
*International Middle East Media Center: [http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11560&Itemid=1 Fatah Hawks reopen road leading to Rafah crossing]


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