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...result would be the same. In Gaza, which is effectively ruled by the fundamentalist Hamas group, anti-Annapolis protesters filled the streets. "They can go to thousands of conferences and we will say in the name of the Palestinian people that we do not accept," Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar told the demonstrators...
Despite the commander's hard line, others in Islamic Jihad may be more flexible. A Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zohri, claimed that Gaza's new rulers would soon talk with other militant groups to persuade them to abide by a Hamas cease-fire with Israel. Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader, said that Hamas could, if it wanted, stop the rocket attacks out of Gaza. "But nobody will be the protector of the Israeli border" he vowed, meaning that Hamas would never agree to act as Israel's policeman in Gaza, a role that Abbas' militia at least pretended...
Mahmoud al-Zahar...
...fear the worst. For days, feuding gunmen from both parties had engaged in running firefights with each other in Gaza and the West Bank. But this time, there was cause for relief: They were gathering for a wedding. The bride was the daughter of Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar, and the guest list included a Who's Who of the Hamas leadership and senior Fatah officials - foes who just a few hours before had been speaking darkly of a civil war among Palestinians...
...hospital when a confrere is injured because Israel will monitor the place to pick up their trails. Unable to use phones or cars, they communicate by encrypted e-mail or in hurried personal rendezvous. The impact on Hamas' public leaders has been even more dramatic. Last September, al-Zahar's house was flattened by an Israeli bomb that wounded him and tore his son to pieces. Now he, Rantisi and Haniya, another of the political brain trust, live in hiding. They have left home to go into safe houses in Gaza's warren of refugee camps where Hamas supporters...