Palestinian Hamas militants show thier skills during a military training training session in Gaza city on August 10, 2008. Hundreds of pro-Hamas demonstrators gathered today further south at the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip to demand that Egypt open its border to relieve a months-old Israeli siege. Getty Images logo Getty Images 10 months ago

Palestinian Hamas militants show thier skills during a military training training session in Gaza city on August 10, 2008. Hundreds of pro-Hamas demonstrators gathered today further south at the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip to demand that Egypt open its border to relieve a months-old Israeli siege.

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  1. Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, center right, is escorted as he leaves Friday prayers in Gaza City, Friday, July 3, 2009.
  2. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh waves to his supporters after attending Friday prayers at al-Noor mosque in Gaza City July 3, 2009.
  3. Palestinians listen to senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during Friday prayers at al-Noor mosque in Gaza City July 3, 2009.
  4. Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas gestures as he speaks at Friday prayers in Gaza City, Friday, July 3, 2009.
  5. FILE - In this July 12, 2007 file photo Hamas activists, from left to right, Nasser Haraz, Rami Tabari, and Abu Atiya are seen behind bars at the Fatah-controlled prison in the West Bank town of Nablus. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces widen a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank and now hold nearly 900 detainees, a record number that includes high school students, wives of activists and others on the fringes of the Islamic militant group, Hamas says.
  6. In this photo taken Tuesday June 21, 2009 Palestinian Hamas lawmaker Mahmoud al-Ramahi, secretary-general of the Palestinian parliament, speaks at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces widen a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank and now hold nearly 900 detainees, a record number that includes high school students, wives of activists and others on the fringes of the Islamic militant group, Hamas says.
  7. In this photo taken Tuesday June 21, 2009 Palestinian Hamas lawmaker Mahmoud al-Ramahi, secretary-general of the Palestinian parliament, checks with an advisor a list of Hamas members detained by the Palestinian Authority at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces widen a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank and now hold nearly 900 detainees, a record number that includes high school students, wives of activists and others on the fringes of the Islamic militant group, Hamas says.
  8. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (C) attends a rally in Gaza City in solidarity with Palestinian parliament members held in Israeli jails July 1, 2009.
  9. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniya is surrounded by his bodyguards as he visits the Islamist movement summer camp in Gaza City, on June 30, 2009. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party would defeat the rival Islamist faction Hamas if a legislative election were held now, according to an opinion poll published on June 29. Fatah would win 38.5 percent of the vote compared to 18.8 percent for Hamas, with the remainder going to smaller factions, according to the survey conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre (JMCC).
  10. A member of Hamas's security forces helps Palestinian bus passengers carry their belongings at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip June 28 2009. The Rafah crossing opened on Saturday for three days for Palestinians with humanitarian cases, a Palestinian border official said. The Rafah crossing, Gaza's only border crossing with Egypt, has largely been closed since June 2007, when the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the coastal Strip from rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
  11. Palestinians speak with Hamas policemen as they wait to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on June 28, 2009. The Rafah crossing with Egypt was opened on June 27 for three days to allow more than 100 patients, students and visa holders to leave the besieged Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, an official at the crossing said.
  12. Aziz Dweik, the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament freed by Israel last week, speaks during a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 28, 2009. Israel detained Dweik and dozens of other Hamas politicians in the occupied West Bank in 2006 shortly after gunmen from the faction and other militants abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on the Gaza Strip border.
  13. A Palestinian member of Hamas uses his mobile phone to film parliament speaker Abdel Aziz Duaik, during a media conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after his release from an Israeli prison, Sunday, June 28, 2009. Duaik, the Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament was freed last Tuesday from an Israeli prison after serving the bulk of his three-year sentence.
  14. Palestinian lawmakers of Hamas, from right, Mariam Saleh, Samira Halaiqah, Abdul Rahman, Zidan Hamid Al-Bitawi, Ahmed AlHaj Ali, Mona Mansour, listen to parliament speaker Abdel Aziz Duaik, not seen, during a media conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after his release from an Israeli prison, Sunday, June 28, 2009. Duaik, the Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament was freed last Tuesday from an Israeli prison after serving the bulk of his three-year sentence.
  15. Head of Gaza's Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh, center, is surrounded by his bodyguards as he tours the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 27, 2009. Egypt briefly opened its border with blockaded Gaza on Saturday, allowing thousands of residents to leave over the next three days. Some 5,000 Gaza residents have signed up to leave the blockaded territory, mostly medical patients seeking treatment abroad and Gazans holding foreign residency.
  16. Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (C) is surrounded by his bodyguards during his visit to the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip June 27, 2009. The Rafah crossing opened on Saturday for three days for Palestinians with humanitarian cases, a Palestinian border official said. The Rafah crossing, Gaza's only border crossing with Egypt, has largely been closed since June 2007, when the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the coastal Strip from rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

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