(BBC News) Jeremy Bowen - I visited the Kweitar family in Gaza. The men are all commanders in Fatah's various armed groups. I walked into their living room which, like all Gazan living rooms, was full of children. It was also full of weapons. One man, who was cuddling a boy of about three, had a rocket launcher propped up next to him. His cousin was walking around looking for his cigarettes with a backpack full of rockets. There were more rockets on the sofa and machine guns in the kitchen. The teenage sons of the family were armed and ready to fight. The reason for all this? They said that men from Hamas had put bombs under their cars. They were convinced Hamas would come back to kill them. They played and replayed a video clip from the previous night's news, showing a Hamas gunman stopping a car driven by one of their colleagues and shooting him the moment he opened the door.
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