[Times-UK] Azmi Keshawi, Martin Fletcher and Sheera Frenkel - The bearded young Hamas fighter stood beneath a shop's awning in the center of Gaza City as he tried to hide from Israeli drones. Mohammed, 24, of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said the fighters wore civilian clothes, concealed their weapons, and no longer walked around in groups. He insisted Hamas still had plenty of rockets that could be launched remotely from hidden bunkers. Suicide bombers are another hazard. On Saturday a man wearing an explosives belt sprang from a side alley in Jabaliya as an Israeli patrol walked past. They shot him seconds before he could detonate himself. Early in the ground war a suicide bomber ran up to a lone Israeli bomb dismantler and literally hugged him as he blew them both up. There have been several such attacks, two by women.
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