ஹமாஸ் வெற்றிக்கு பிறகு பாலஸ்தீன காஜாவை விட்டு இஸ்ரேலுக்கு ஓடும் பாலஸ்தீனர்கள்

காஜா பகுதியில் ஹமாஸ் குழு படா குழுவை வென்று அங்கு பல பாலஸ்தீன படா குழுவினரை கொன்றிருக்கிறார்கள். அவர்களது தீவிரவாதத்துக்கு அஞ்சி அங்கிருந்து பாலஸ்தீனர்கள் இஸ்ரேலுக்கு ஓடிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள்.

Gazans Try to Reach Israel Via Tunnel
By DIAA HADID
The Associated Press
Sunday, June 17, 2007; 4:03 PM

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Jamal Abu Zayda waited 15 hours in the Erez crossing, a narrow tunnel with high walls, jostling with thieves, panicked women and crying babies before reaching Israel early Sunday.

By just getting out of the tunnel, he was one of the lucky ones.



Palestinians gather around the remains of the statue of The Unknown Soldier after it was brought down by Palestinian militants in Gaza City, Sunday, June 17, 2007. Militants tore down Gaza's unknown soldier early Sunday morning, smashing the statue's head, and dumping the fiberglass remains in the Strip's main square. The Unknown Soldier once stood a Gaza park close to the parliamentary building, his head upright and his hand raised into the sky. The statue's location was a popular place for militant press conferences, where lovers secretly met and men smoked water pipes in the evening. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (Khalil Hamra - AP)

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A fluent Hebrew speaker with excellent relations with Israeli officials, Abu Zayda stood a good chance of getting out of Gaza, now ruled by Hamas militants. As a former senior security official from Fatah, he feared he'd been put on a Hamas death list.

Although there is a general amnesty for most Fatah fighters, who lost a five-day battle with Hamas militias, the Muslim group has vowed to kill those they believe have blood on their hands.

Many officials are still trapped inside the narrow concrete-walled corridor. Like Abu Zayda, they fear returning to Gaza, but Israel won't let them in.

Hundreds of others in the tunnel hope to get a break into the West Bank. Their lives aren't at risk, they just don't want to live under Hamas rule.

"It's hell in there," Abu Zayda said from the Israeli side of the crossing. "They should give themselves up to Hamas _ it's better than staying in the tunnel."

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Once marking a meeting place for secret lovers, rowdy militant press conferences and bored chain-smokers, Gaza's unknown soldier statue lay dumped in a square on Sunday, his head missing.

The unknown soldier once stood at a park close to the parliament building, his head upright and his hand raised bravely into the sky.

But strict interpretations of Islam forbid the display of statues, and many in Gaza fear that Hamas, now in control of the territory, will not stop extremist Muslims from imposing their views.

Militants tore down the statue on Sunday morning, said Abu Mohammed, a park cleaner. The battered soldier was tossed in bustling Palestine Square