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Gaza
7 hr. ago, Marco Villa

This was always predictable. The Palestinian Islamist party-cum-militia Hamas (an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement) was always going to come to the rescue for its secular rival Fatah.

Fatah is one of the oldest Palestinian organizations.

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