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Article: Uncertainty for Hamas in West Bank.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 25, 2007
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Byline: Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Nablus, West Bank -- Khouloud el-Masri insists her al-Juthur cultural center was nothing more than a place for teaching women.
But gunmen loyal to Fatah dismissed it as a cover for Hamas indoctrination. They set it on fire at the height of the fighting in Gaza two weeks ago between the Palestinian factions. The center was destroyed and the blaze nearly sent the building where Mrs. Masri lives with her husband and five children up in smoke.
Now, Masri, an elected councilmember and one of the most prominent female faces of Hamas's political wing in the West Bank, is living on ...