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...meant to. The radical Islamist group on Friday announced a halt to suicide bombings and mortar attacks inside Israel-proper "in response to many wise people who want to avoid giving our occupiers a chance to split our unity." And the reason for their concern was underlined Friday in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, where five Palestinians died and at least 70 were injured when Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen attacked a Palestinian Authority police post. Clashes between the PA and its Palestinian opponents have grown increasingly violent over the past week, and the Hamas announcement appears to have been...
...hard to round up the largely anonymous military commanders, it's not much easier to rope in well-known political leaders. Abdul Aziz Rantisi, a tough, uncompromising medical doctor, is the main political figure in Gaza. Last week he slipped underground to evade the Palestinian Authority sweep. Khaled Meshal, the man the Mossad poisoned in Amman in 1997 and whose life was then saved by Jordan's King Hussein, stays permanently out of reach. He is the organization's overall boss, but he gives his orders from safe havens in Syria and Qatar. Mousa Abu Marzook, who was forced...
...Palestinians. The charitable side of Hamas is its greatest strength and its best cover. About 60% of the budget goes to dawah, the legitimate network of schools, mosques, orphanages, clinics, youth clubs, athletic teams and libraries that Hamas has spread into virtually every corner of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Nablus before the new intifadeh, 3,700 families received financial help from Hamas; now 7,000 do. Among the services offered are lifetime annuities to sustain the families of suicide bombers recruited from Hamas classrooms and soccer fields. "These guys kill Israelis, but they also secure their families...
...helps finance the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. President Bush froze the group's $5 million in assets, and FBI agents hauled off records from its Richardson headquarters and offices in California, New Jersey and Illinois. The charity's money, said Bush, went to schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to "indoctrinate children to grow up into suicide bombers" and to support families of slain bombers...
President Bush last week described Hamas as one of the deadliest terrorist organizations in the world. But by delivering both suicide bombings and desperately needed welfare services in the West Bank and Gaza, the radical group is eclipsing Yasser Arafat in Palestinian hearts and minds. TIME correspondents investigate...