…continue to inflict their Islam on one another.

Hundreds of Hamas fighters firing rockets and mortar shells captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza on Tuesday, scoring a key victory in the bloody battle for control of the seaside strip.

Both sides said Gaza had descended into civil war, as the death toll from two days of Palestinian fighting reached 37.

Tuesday’s battles marked a turning point, with Hamas moving systematically to seize Fatah positions in what some in the Islamic militant group said would be a decisive phase in the yearlong power struggle. The confrontations became increasingly brutal in recent days, with some killed execution-style in the streets, others in hospital shootouts or thrown off rooftops.

And liberals believe that these evil murderous creatures are capable of maintaining a civilized sovereign state?

Battles raged across the Gaza Strip during the day. The staccato of gunfire echoed across Gaza City, plumes of smoke rose into the air from far-flung neighborhoods and one firefight sent a dozen preschoolers scrambling for cover.

Truncating,

Many Gazans, pinned down in their homes, were furious with the combatants. “Both Fatah and Hamas are leading us to death and destruction,” said Ayya Khalil, 29, whose husband serves as an intelligence officer. “They don’t care about us.”

They are such a stupid people. They supported Arafat and Fatah for decades and, knowing full well that Hamas is a terrorist organization, voted them into political leadership, and now that their chickens are coming home to roost, they are whining. Whine, terrorist supporters, whine! They’ve proven repeatedly, for over half a century, that they are incapable of learning from their mistakes, so by all means let them fall back to their default position (whining).

There was concern the fighting might spread to the West Bank, where Fatah has the upper hand, as Hamas notched victories in Gaza. Late Tuesday, Fatah gunmen wounded four Hamas activists in the West Bank city of Nablus, Fatah said in a statement.

Good, let’s leave them alone, and let them kill each other off wherever and whenever they can.