[Reuters] Nidal al-Mughrabi - Senior Hamas figure Ghazi Hamad wrote on Tuesday in the Palestinian newspaper al-Ayyam that the presence of armed men on almost every street, and their attendance at every rally had created an atmosphere of guns and violence. It also meant that television pictures broadcast around the world too often showed armed men and images of violence, casting the Palestinian struggle in a poor light, he suggested. "Shouldn't we be ashamed of this ugly behavior which scandalizes us before our people and before the world?" Hamad wrote that 175 Palestinians had been killed by "Palestinian gunfire" since the beginning of the year. "All of us have the desire not to see arms in the streets except with policemen. We want to disown this disease, this cancer, which has damaged our brains and paralyzed our hearts."
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