[Ha'aretz] Yoav Stern, Amos Harel, and Avi Issacharoff - Two weeks ago, PA Chairman Abbas' office asked Israel to permit the transfer of the Badr Brigade, an armed Palestine Liberation Organization brigade based in Jordan, to the northern Gaza Strip to bolster Fatah against Hamas in Gaza. Israel turned down a number of Palestinian requests to deploy the brigade in the West Bank during the past two years and it appears the chances that the proposal will be accepted are very slim. Senior military sources said Sunday that "Hamas has already taken over the Gaza Strip in practice. Fatah in the Gaza Strip looks quite pathetic. It is clear which one of the two sides is more powerful here."
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