Dienstag, 13. November 2007
Any Questions?
More than 200,000 people attended Monday’s rally in Gaza City, making it Fatah’s biggest show of force in the overcrowded coastal territory since Hamas took control in the summer.
Crowds were dispersing after listening to speeches from Fatah figures now based in the West Bank when the first shots rang out.
At one point hundreds of stone-throwing Fatah activists confronted Hamas security forces - despite their rivals letting off heavy bursts of automatic gunfire.
The death of Fatah founder Yasser Arafat, on 11 November 2004 from unidentified causes, deprived Palestinians of a key unifying figure.
Now, let’s give ‘em a fuckin’ state, would you? (1/2 (c) Charles Johnson)
