[AFP] A Hamas court has banned the distribution in Gaza of the Al-Ayyam newspaper, which is published in the West Bank and is considered close to the rival Palestinian Authority, officials from the daily said on Sunday. The paper's editor, Abdelnasser Annajar, said the decision "proves that Hamas refuses to accept others and that they continue to prevent the freedom of the press." He said the court ruling came in response to a complaint by several Hamas members of parliament over a published cartoon that they said portrayed them in an unflattering light. The cartoon's author, Paha Bokhari, said, "They considered that I drew them as monkeys. I didn't draw them as monkeys. If they see themselves as monkeys, that's their problem."
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