(AP) Isabel Debre - With the Israel-Hamas war in its second month, some Palestinians have vented their anger against Hamas, shouting insults at officials or beating up policemen in scenes unimaginable just a month ago, witnesses say. In one area, angry crowds hurled stones at Hamas police who cut in front of a water line and beat them with their fists until they scattered. In Gaza City, as Hamas rockets streamed overhead toward Israel, at a UN shelter hundreds of people shouted insults against Hamas and cried out that they wanted the war to end. During a televised press conference Tuesday, a young man with a dazed expression pushed his way through the crowd, disrupting a speech by Iyad Bozum, spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry. "May God hold you to account, Hamas!" the man yelled.
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