And how they are being fucked over by an agent of the shitstink state of Israel:
"Hamas Forces Shoot Own Supporters at Rally; Youth Killed" by Isabel Kershner/New York Times September 2, 2007
JERUSALEM, Sept. 1 — Shots from Hamas security forces hit the group’s own supporters in Gaza on Saturday when a rally near the Egyptian border threatened to spiral out of control, witnesses said. One teenager was killed and several other demonstrators were wounded, Palestinian medics said.
Hamas had called for the demonstration, which thousands attended, to protest the closing of the Rafah border crossing. It has been closed since Hamas seized control of Gaza in June.
Members of the Hamas paramilitary police force fired into the air to disperse protesters who were trying to dash into Egypt, the witnesses said. The teenager, identified as Muhammad Qdaih, 17, was hit and died a short while later. A spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, Ehab al-Ghsein, said officials were trying “to determine where the shot came from.”
[Fatah sniper? Israeli?]
The border incident came as tensions mounted in Gaza between Hamas and its rival, Fatah. Early Saturday, a bomb destroyed the car of a Palestinian affiliated with Hamas. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, called a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee in Ramallah for Saturday evening. He said the committee, which represents most Palestinian factions but not Hamas, would discuss developments in the Gaza Strip and “ways of protecting our people from the madness and repression.”
[And CUI BONO?]
On Friday, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza defied Hamas to join a Fatah-inspired protest, clashing with Hamas forces. Several protesters were injured and dozens detained, reports from Gaza said. A Fatah spokesman, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, called the protest the start of “a new era in the Palestinian national struggle to cleanse the homeland of Hamas gangs.”
[Gee, WHOSE PLAN DOES THAT SOUND LIKE?
Get your heads out your asses, Palestinians!]
No one was hurt in the car blast on Saturday. Mr. Ghsein, the Interior Ministry spokesman in Gaza, said Fatah leaders were behind the attack. “We have strong confirmation of a new network involving the powerful leaders in Ramallah and their misled supporters in Gaza,” he said.
Mr. Ghsein said that five other explosions went off in Gaza City in recent weeks, mainly near Hamas-run security compounds. He added that some arrests had been made, and that Hamas security officials had been “tracking phone calls” between the suspects in the blasts and their handlers in Ramallah.
A Fatah official in Ramallah, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with reporters, dismissed Mr. Ghsein’s statements as “not true at all.”
[Lying Fatah traitors!]
More:
"Hamas gunmen open fire at border protest, killing Gaza teen; Thousands rally for reopening of gateway to Egypt" by Ibrahim Barzak/Associated Press September 2, 2007
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen opened fire on their own supporters yesterday, killing a teenager at a protest on the Gaza-Egypt border, hospital officials said.
[Yeah, they killed their own, sure they did.]
Tens of thousands of flag- waving Hamas supporters gathered at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to demand it be reopened. The border, Gaza's only gateway to Egypt, has been shut since Hamas's bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip in June.
Hamas gunmen guarding the border fired in the air as hundreds of protesters tried to rush the border terminal and go into Egypt. A 17-year-old was shot in the head and later pronounced dead, medics said. Seven others were trampled or wounded by gunfire.
Issa Mashar, a top Hamas leader in Rafah:
"This is a peaceful protest to voice our message that we are looking for freedom. We came to send a message from the people who are suffering."
Ashraf Abu Daya, one of the organizers of the rally, appealed for calm from the crowd:
"There is no need to break into the crossing. The crossing is no longer under the occupation. The crossing is under the control of the Hamas Executive Committee."
[Yeah, but it makes Hamas look bad, which BENEFITS WHOM?!]
Hamas charges that the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not want the crossing opened by Egypt because that would help the Islamic group hold on to power in Gaza. The Hamas takeover triggered the closure of the border crossing, which had been run by Palestinian security with European supervision and Israeli security in the background.
[A revealing phrase.
Yes, everything taking place with the Israelis (read: Zionists) in the background.
That's why Israel LITERALLY gets away with murder without a peep from the UN]
Ihab al-Ghusain, a Hamas security spokesman, said its forces tried to prevent a few of the demonstrators from approaching the border with Egypt:
"A child was injured and he is in critical condition. We are investigating the incident to determine where the shot came from."
Also yesterday, the car of a Palestinian affiliated with Hamas was destroyed by a bomb in Gaza City early yesterday. No one was injured.
Abbas called a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee in Ramallah on the West Bank yesterday to discuss rising violence in the Gaza Strip and ways to protect people."
[Protect the people?
How about reigning in your thugs, Abbas, and quit carrying out Israel's orders?]
And more:
"Abbas decrees new election rules designed to keep Fatah in power; Hamas calls the decision illegal" by Maher Abukhater and Richard Boudreaux/Los Angeles Times September 3, 2007
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decreed new election rules yesterday intended to make it more difficult for his faction's Hamas rivals to win the presidency or keep their majority in Parliament.
[That's what's known as a DICTATOR, folks!]
Hamas called the decree illegal and accused Abbas of abetting US and Israeli. Israel and Western countries have embraced Abbas's government.
Under the previous election rules, Hamas unseated Abbas's Fatah faction in January 2006 to win control of Parliament. Hamas outpolled Fatah by about 2-1 in the district races, but won narrowly in the nationwide vote.
[Yup, Hamas LEGITIMATELY WON DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS!!
How about that, huh, reader? So why aren't we talking to them?]
The two groups shared power in a government that served Gaza and the West Bank until Hamas gunmen seized Gaza nearly three months ago, driving out Fatah's security forces.
At that point, Abbas fired the Hamas-led government, installed one loyal to him, and began issuing decrees, their influence limited to the West Bank. Fatah boycotts have kept Parliament from achieving a quorum to meet.
[Remember that!]
According to yesterday's decree, the Parliament will be elected from national lists; district races will be eliminated. The decree also calls for a runoff in presidential elections if no candidate receives an absolute majority of first-round votes. The change would make it more difficult for Hamas.
In addition, the decree requires presidential and parliamentary candidates to recognize the Fatah-dominated Palestine Liberation Organization as the "sole, legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people.
[Yeah, FUCK DEMOCRACY, 'eh?]
Abbas summoned reporters to his office to announce the decree, calling it an amendment to the Palestinian Authority's election law. He did not spell out reasons for the changes, but political leaders said the intent was clear.
Hassan Khreisheh, a politically independent deputy speaker of Parliament who nonetheless doubted that Hamas's electoral prospects would be significantly weakened:
"The purpose is to give more power to PLO-member parties at the expense of Hamas."
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said yesterday that only Parliament has authority to change the election law:
"Hamas objects to this policy of monopolizing decision-making."
Some non-Hamas legal specialists, including the chief authors of the interim Palestinian Authority constitution, have disputed the president's power to amend laws by decree. Abbas says he has such authority because Parliament is no longer functioning.
[Yeah, because YOUR ASSHOLE LEGISLATORS are BOYCOTTING IT so it can't gain a quorum!
What a dictatorial, traitorous, shitstink-state serving piece of soft-serve, side-winding crap Abbas is!]
