Hamas supporters hold rally in wake of movement's victory in coastal strip

Описание: (15 Jun 2007)
Gaza city
1. Various of streets filled with marching Palestinians bearing green Hamas flags
2. Pullout from Hamas flags to wide of crowd UPSOUND: music
3. Masked gunmen standing on armoured vehicle waving flags surrounded by crowd UPSOUND: music
4. Wide of people with flags on gate
5. Wide of crowd with green Hamas flags in square
6. Veiled women in crowd waving green flags
7. Gunmen standing alongside boy who is dancing
8. Various of crowd dancing and singing
9. Boys dressed in military suits playing with fake guns
10. Wide pan right of crowd
Jebaliya
11. Wide of street, people marching waving Hamas flags
12. Crowd chanting slogans, car with speakers in crowd
13. Demonstrators marching through traffic
14. Man with boy on shoulders holding flags
15. Wide of march
16. Demonstrators holding flags
17. Man marching with children
18. Veiled women wearing green Hamas hats chanting slogans
19. Wide of demonstration, women waving to camera
20. Car surrounded by crowd
21. Back shot of demonstration
Khan Younis
22. Wide of demonstration with marchers bearing green Hamas flags, boys waving to camera
23. Veiled women marching
24. Various of demonstration with truck playing music UPSOUND: music
25. Man with boy on shoulder, both pointing finger
26. Various of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Thousands took to the streets in various towns around the Gaza strip after Friday prayers to celebrate Hamas seizing power all over the Gaza Strip.
The cities of Jebaliya, Khan Younis and Gaza city were crowded with cars, pedestrians and triumphant Hamas fighters, waving green Hamas flags and chanting.
The battle for Gaza ended Thursday night when Hamas forces took the last Fatah stronghold, the seaside office complex of Abbas.
The Fatah forces had collapsed quickly under Hamas' systematic onslaught.
One by one, Hamas seized Fatah facilities and marched Fatah fighters down the street shirtless and with hands raised.
When victorious Hamas gunmen killed several Fatah fighters in the streets gangland-style on Thursday, in the final phase of the decisive five-day battle over Gaza, there were fears of more bloodshed as old scores are settled.
On its first day of full rule in Gaza however, the Islamic militant Hamas on Friday granted amnesty to Fatah leaders, signalling that it seeks conciliation with the defeated forces of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
But Abbas appeared in no mood to bury the hatchet, insisting that Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, had been fired and naming Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, an independent, to replace him.
Gaza's crossings with Egypt and Israel - lifelines for the fenced-in territory - have been closed this week, and it was not clear if and when they would reopen.
Extended closure could quickly lead to a humanitarian crisis.
The Palestinian territories are in effect split in two.
Gaza is now controlled by Hamas, which has close ties to Syria and Iran.
The West Bank, with about 2 (m) million residents to Gaza's 1.4 (m) million, is dominated by the more moderate Fatah, which has some ties to Israel and the West, but is still under Israeli occupation.

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