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Hamas fighter sits at Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's desk in the president's Gaza
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Hostile Takeover
A masked Hamas fighter sits at Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas's desk in the president's Gaza office. Hamas fighters seized control of the Gaza Strip on Friday, effectively creating an Islamic enclave on Israel's border after routing their secular Fatah rivals in days of vicious gun-battles.