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Thank you for visiting my page at Angelfire. Please come backSaid Siyam, a top Hamas official, ordered the forces to gather in six centers and provide assistance to regular police forces if requested. He said the unit also would conduct its own patrols, but did not say when this would happen. Tensions have been steadily rising since Hamas defeated the long-ruling Fatah party in January legislative elections. Abbas, who was elected separately last year, has been locked in a bitter power struggle with the new Hamas-led government. Abbas has been seeking to counter Hamas' power, removing authority over security forces from the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry and asserting that he has the authority to conduct peace negotiations with Israel. In response, Hamas formed the new security unit in defiance of Abbas' ban, placing a senior militant wanted by Israel in charge of the force. The deployment set off more than a week of clashes with Fatah-dominated security forces in Gaza. The tensions have been compounded by a steadily worsening economic crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under intense international economic pressure to moderate, the Hamas-led government has been unable to pay the salaries of its 165,000 employees for nearly and visit again!

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