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Hamas: give us money or we go boom
 Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya has said the suspension of Western aid to the Palestinians will never defeat the new Hamas-led administration. Nor, Mr Haniya said, would it defeat the Palestinian people.Mr Haniya was addressing Friday prayers in Gaza before the start of a series of rallies aimed at demonstrating support for the Hamas-led administration. Mr Haniya delivered his defiant and passionate address to thousands of supporters gathered at the main mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp, the BBC's Alan Johnston in Gaza says. The Palestinian prime minister said there would be, as he put it, no surrender, no buckling to the demands of Israel and the West. "We will eat salt, but we will not bow our heads for anybody other than God, because we are faithful to the rights of our people and our nation. We will not betray it," he said. Earlier, at another big demonstration in the south, another Hamas leader had warned that if the party's government was broken by its enemies, Hamas would go back on the offensive. Younes al-Aftal, a
Posted by: Steve White 2006-04-15 |
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