Fatah activists take to streets against Hamas govt

Thousands of Fatah supporters burned cars and fired guns in the air across the Gaza Strip, demanding the resignation of corrupt party officials and insisting on no coalition between their defeated party and victorious Hamas.

The protest against the party that dominated Palestinian politics for the past 40 years came after President Mahmoud Abbas, who was elected last year to a four-year term, said yesterday he would ask the Islamic militant group to form the next government. Abbas later sacked six Fatah officials.