Hamas marked the second anniversary of its take-over of Gaza this week, but there were no victory parades, no jubilation and no great words - just growing anger, despair and hopelessness among many Palestinians. "Not everything deserves to be celebrated," says Ahmed Yousef, Hamas` deputy foreign minister. Gaza in June 2009 looks like a police state. Armed Hamas men keep each residential block under their scrutiny. Complaints about unscrupulous behavior by Hamas people can fill pages. A young man reports how Hamas first beat him up and then shot apart all four tires of his car, because he was listening to a Fatah song. A common intimidation method used by Hamas is knee-capping, where victims are shot from close range in the knees, crippling them.
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