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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07hebron.html
Drive for Palestinian Unity Exposes Fractured Society
(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - Louai Faisal, 27, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, spent three periods in Israeli prisons, starting in 2003 when he was sentenced to two and a half years as a would-be suicide bomber for Hamas. More recently, he has spent three terms in Palestinian Authority prisons. Faisal said he was never tortured in Israel, only in the Palestinian Authority prisons, where the treatment, he said, was "much worse." This week, residents of Amari, a poor neighborhood of Ramallah where Fatah is still popular, recalled the anger they felt when Hamas took over Gaza. "If someone slaps you in the face, you will never forget that," said Ali Hussein, 67.