[New York Times] Steven Erlanger - Hamas forces appeared to consolidate their hold on northern Gaza and much of Gaza City on Saturday, overrunning and sometimes destroying headquarters of the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security forces. Ghada Abu Daoud, who works for the Gaza office of a Persian Gulf emirate, said: "It's Hamas that seems to initiate every raid, and the number of Fatah wounded seems higher." Dr. Jumaa al-Saqqa, a spokesman for Al Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest, said Hamas forces had taken over the hospital and were using it as a protected firing position. He said blood supplies were low, and that "people aren't willing to give blood for this internal fighting." Many senior Fatah leaders left Gaza to go to the West Bank, taking their families.
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