Hamas-Fatah division deepens with Soleimani’s assassination

Ahmad Melhem

Jan 14, 2020

Hamas policemen in Gaza City stand guard during a mourning ceremony organised in honour of slain Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani (portrait) killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in a US air strike a day earlier, on January 4, 2020. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images) — Hamas policemen stand guard during a mourning ceremony organized in honor of slain Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani (portrait) killed in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in a US airstrike a day earlier, Gaza City, Gaza, Jan. 4, 2020. — MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — The US assassination of top Iranian military commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani this month in Iraq has triggered conflicting positions among Palestinians.

In the Gaza Strip, most Palestinian factions condemned the Jan. 3 assassination. Some leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad offered Iran condolences at the funeral in Tehran of Soleimani, who led the elite Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.