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...repeatedly in the last three weeks, including on three separate occasions in just the last two days. Early Monday morning, three men were killed in Khan Yunis during a shoot-out between the factions that followed a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings. On Tuesday morning, trouble ensued in Gaza City after Hamas gunmen approached the heavily guarded house of a Fatah official; bullets again flew, injuring nine people, including five children. That same afternoon, at the funeral of a Fatah foot soldier killed the prior morning, gunfire erupted again, injuring three more...
...Last month, Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas, using his presidential authority, appointed an ally as the head of the Preventative Security Apparatus, which is charged with overseeing security in the West Bank and Gaza, enraging Hamas leaders who felt their new power was being undermined. The Hamas-led Interior Ministry responded by forming its own paramilitary force under the command of veteran militant Jamal Abu Samhadana (whom Israel wants dead). Thus was the stage set for this week's gun battles, which occurred the day after Abbas went to Gaza for meetings with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas...
...appealed for calm, and as of yet there doesn't seem to be the will on either side for an all-out confrontation. But as each side continues to blame the other for all manner of ills, smaller-scale skirmishes could well become a feature of daily life in Gaza. "The factional fighting is genuine," says Nicholas Pelham, the International Crisis Group's senior Middle East analyst. "It is still at a level where it can be contained but tensions are inflamed" - particularly in Khan Yunis - "to a point where I don' t know if the leaders are going...
...government seated on Thursday has made clear that it plans to redraw the borders between Israel and the Palestinians on its own terms, insisting that it will not negotiate with a Palestinian government led by Hamas. But Wolfensohn is warning that the current siege of the West Bank and Gaza makes it increasingly unlikely that what will emerge on the Palestinian side of Israel's new border wall will be a viable state...
...actively ensuring that the people who provide the educational, health and all other basic services in the West Bank and Gaza cannot be paid, the Bush administration is effectively aligning itself with a drive to bring down the Palestinian Authority unless Hamas agrees to formally renounce violence, recognize Israel and abide by previous peace agreements. Although the movement is currently observing a unilateral ceasefire and is beginning, under Arab pressure, to articulate terms on which it may talk peace with Israel, it is unlikely to give in to the U.S. and Israeli demands...