On 26 July, Wafa news agency in Arabic reports extensively on Hamas raids on Fatah institutions and a wide-scale arrest campaign of Fatah members in Gaza Strip, conducted against the background of the 25 July explosion in which five Hamas members and a child were killed.

Text of report in English by Palestinian news agency Wafa website ["Hamas Bans Fatah Anniversary Activities in Gaza Forcibly" - WAFA headline] Gaza, 31 Dec (WAFA) - Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Monday prevented rival Fatah movement from marking its 43rd anniversary in Gaza Strip by force.

Following the ouster of the Palestinian National Authority's security forces by Hamas from the Gaza Strip in June 2007, the Palestinian political map has seen many changes.

JERUSALEM _ Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip rounded up scores of activists from the rival Fatah movement after a mass rally by Fatah on Monday ended in the deadliest factional violence since Hamas overran the coastal territory last June, officials said Tuesday.

By Donald Macintyre reports Three years after the former president died in a Paris hospital - and almost six months after Hamas's bloody takeover of Gaza - up to 250,000 people took part in one of the largest political rallies held in the Palestinian territories in recent memory.