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Several dozen students held a silent vigil on the steps of Memorial Hall yesterday to honor civilians killed in the Gaza Strip last week...
...dealing with warring Palestinian organisms - notably the Fatah movement led by President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist miitants of outgoing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyah's Hamas, who has recently as weeks ago were on the verge of open civil war. All that changed after the Israeli forces sliced into Gaza last month in an effort to stop militants launching homemade rockets at Israel. The incursion forced Hamas and Fatah gunmen who had been eyeing each other warily on Gaza street corners to once again confront a common enemy. An Israeli shelling incident, in which 19 Palestinians were killed in their...
...rally, Haniyeh told his Hamas supporters that the Israelis have "one condition, that the siege (on Gaza) will not be lifted unless the prime minister is changed. When the issue is like this, the siege on one hand, the prime minister on the other... I prefer that the siege be lifted and the suffering ended." Haniyeh then offered to resign...
...Palestinian negotiators warn, however, that before the biologist's government is installed, Israel will have to lift its siege of Gaza and free dozens of captive Hamas parliamentarians. But that will only happen if Palestinian militants release Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier snatched on the Gaza border last June. Negotiations are underway to free the corporal, but complications could arise...
...international consensus on Hamas may be starting to unravel. For the moment, Hamas officials are reduced to smuggling suitcases of cash into Gaza to pay salaries to government employees. But Arabs states were so outraged that the U.S. used its veto power to stop a U.N. resolution condemning the Israel killings in Gaza that they vowed to break the embargo and start sending funds to the Palestinians. In Cairo, say insiders, the Europeans, the U.N. and the Russians began distancing themselves from the hard-line U.S. stance, claiming that the new Palestinian government should be given a chance...