2006年VOA标准英语-Palestinian Gunmen Assassinate Hamas-Affiliated
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By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
13 December 2006
A judge is the latest victim of Palestinian factional fighting in the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, there is growing concern among Palestinians that the situation is spinning out of control.
Palestinian gunmen ambushed3 a judge from the ruling Islamic militant4 group Hamas as he arrived at a courthouse in Gaza. Witnesses say Bassam al-Fara was dragged from a taxi and shot dead. Al-Fara was also a senior commander of the Hamas military wing.
Palestinians carry body of Bassam al-Farra during his funeral in Khan Yunis, 13 Dec 2006
Hamas blamed the rival Fatah faction1 for killing5 the judge and promised revenge.
It was the latest in a wave of attacks between the two groups that has raised fears of a Palestinian civil war. The ambush2 came two days after the targeted killing of three young children of a commander from Fatah who was seen as an enemy of Hamas.
The violence is part of a deepening struggle between moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas-led government.
Palestinian analyst6 Bassam Eid says the people are fed up with both of them and with the lawlessness on the streets.
"I think that most of the Palestinians now becomes much more hopeless, much more pessimistic towards the government, towards the Palestinian President, in term to put an end for such a huge chaos," said Eid.
Following the attack on the judge, more than a thousand Fatah police and gunmen blocked roads and fired in the air.
They marched to the office of President Abbas, demanding that he sack the Hamas government over the collapse7 of law and order.
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