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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: June 13, 2006 |
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Several thousand Hamas supporters demonstrated outside the Palestinian parliament building early Tuesday after security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas went on a violent rampage in the West Bank against the Hamas-led government.
"What happened today in Ramallah is very shameful and I think the president did not use all his efforts to prevent it," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
Hundreds of members of the Preventive Security service, which is loyal to Abbas' Fatah movement, riddled the Palestinian parliament and Cabinet buildings in the West Bank town of Ramallah with bullets and set them ablaze. The violent protest was in response to an attack on a Preventive Service building in Gaza earlier Monday.
More than 3,000 people, many holding green Hamas flags, joined the protest outside the parliament building in Gaza after midnight Tuesday. Organizers chanted slogans over car loudspeakers against the security force and Abbas' efforts to hold a referendum on a plan calling for coexistence with Israel.
"The mercenary sons of the Preventive Security, we tell you, we are very ready to take out heads and souls," the crowd chanted.
Hamas' controversial private militia, which has been at the center of tensions with Fatah, guarded the building during the rally. |
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