One of the most underreported stories involving the Gaza war has been what Hamas has done to members of their rival Palestinian faction, Fatah, within the Gaza Strip.
Reports from The Jerusalem Post and Arab newspapers are some of the few sources reporting on Hamas atrocities.
Here's a report from the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which monitors the Palestinian media.
PMW published an excerpt from a Palestinian daily paper al-Hayat al-Jadida, and this video clip from the official Palestinian Authority TV.
The paper accuses Hamas of atrocities, including shooting Fatah members in the legs and murdering Fatah members for violating their house arrest.
Headline: "Reports of persecutions and liquidation of Fatah members by Hamas members evoke anxiety and condemnation in the West Bank."
Reports mentioning liquidations of Fatah members in the Gaza Strip by members of Hamas evoked popular condemnation which was added yesterday to the erupting anger, which influenced the level of popular activities carried out in solidarity with the Gaza residents in the towns Ramallah and El-Bira.
The reports from Gaza pointed out the death of dozens of Fatah members caused by Hamas members. A prominent leader stated that isolated random incidents of murder have occurred, but ruled out that this is a case of organized persecution.
Wafa A-Najar, Gaza resident who lives in the town El-Bira, said that her father was killed the day before yesterday and nine of her family members were injured by shooting by Hamas, among them were three small children and two young people in critical condition.
According to the family's story, a squad belonging to Hamas came to her family's house in Sheikh Radwan [neighborhood] in Gaza and shot at the legs of young Badran A-Najar, claiming that he was violating the house arrest which was imposed on him, at the time when he was sitting with his cousins in front of the house.
A prominent leader in the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip, Ibrahim Abu A-Naja, ruled out that this is a case of persecution by some organization, which aims at Fatah, however he pointed out that "a number of isolated incidents " had occurred, as has been reported by the Israeli media.
Abu A-Naja called for Hamas to halt any step which provides Israel the opportunity to attack us.
Groups within the Fatah movement in the West Bank estimated that more than a hundred of its people in the Gaza Strip had been exposed to persecution, shooting, and liquidation."
(al-Hayat al-Jadida [Fatah]. January 9, 2009)
Jamal Najar, popular Palestinian singer:
"I express my condolences to my cousins, some of them were killed yesterday by the gangs of the anarchic HAMAS security forces in the Gaza Strip. The father was killed right in front of his children, because he didn't stay at home, after they placed him under house arrest, he and everyone who belongs to Fatah." (PA [FATAH] January 6, 2009
Click here to see the video.