Naples Daily News · 28 January 2006

CP-2006-018

Fatah activists protest

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Fatah activists protest Palestinian leader Abbas says he will ask Hamas to form government By IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Thousands of activists from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party demonstrated in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, burning abandoned cars, shooting in the air and demanding corrupt leaders resign after their devastating INSIDE election loss to the militant Israel caught off guard Hamas movement. by Hamas election With Hamas winning a landslide 13A strong majority in parlia- mentary elections, Abbas said he will ask the Islamic group to form the next Pales- tinian government, but Fatah rejected a role in the new Cabinet and Israel ruled out peace talks in what could be the first steps to isolate the mili- tant group after its election victory.

Acting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asked world leaders not to legitimize a

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"Fatah activists protest," Naples Daily News, 28 January 2006. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2006-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2006-018

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