Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Fatah used Google Earth to locate targets in Gaza as Hamas
Posted by Lesbond at Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Islamist Hamas movement on Monday accused the PA of its activists have spied for Israel during the recent war in Gaza, and to use the software Google Earth to locate targets.
"Officers and members of security services in Ramallah have instructed their agents (in Gaza) to monitor the movements of resistance in the Gaza Strip," he said at a press conference in Gaza, the spokesman for the Hamas Interior Ministry, Ihab andalusia Ghosein. "These reports were sent to Ramallah (site of the Palestinian Authority) and then transmitted to the enemy (Israel), which pointed against targets based on information collected before and during the war," added the spokesman.
At the press conference were broadcast several videos that showed "confessions" by men claiming to be members of Fatah of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority.
According to a chief of the intelligence services of Hamas in Gaza, Abu Abdullah, several maps, mainly with the help of Google Earth program, were sent to locate the precise number of whites then attacked by Israeli aircraft.
"With the help of Google Earth program, these groups have developed maps to locate mosques, institutions, tunnels and workshops. Then sent their responsibility for security services in the West Bank before the war," said Abu Abdullah to the press. According to him, the coordinates of caches of weapons in Beit Hanoun (northern Gaza Strip) were transmitted, as well as drawings of the home of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, among other objectives.
The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip (from December 27 to January 18) left some 1330 dead Palestinians. The stated goal was to minimize the firing of rockets by Palestinians against Israel.
