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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					29/01/2011 &#8211; 08:41 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; Tens of thousands of  Palestinians participated in angry marches in the Gaza Strip at noon  Friday in protest at the reported concessions made by the  Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA).</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The protesters chanted slogans calling for  de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and his authority to step down and  stop claiming they represent the Palestinian people.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">During a massive rally held in northern  Gaza, member of Hamas&#8217;s political bureau Khalil Hayya condemned the PA  in Ramallah city for waiving the Palestinian people&#8217;s rights and  constants.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;We will never cede our land, the Aqsa  Mosque, and the rights of refugees and prisoners, so on behalf of whom  you waive and make concessions,&#8221; Hayya said addressing Abbas and his  negotiation team in Ramallah city.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Hayya in his speech asked the Arab countries and their League to stop supporting the PA and wash their hands of its negotiators.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He noted that the marches in support of  Abbas in the West Bank are organized by his security apparatuses to  cover the widespread public anger at the PA negotiators.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a related context, Dr. Abelsatter  Qassem, a professor of political science in Nablus city, described the  limited marches organized in support of Abbas and his authority in the  West Bank as faked and unreal.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;These demonstrations are not real and  take place exactly as the Arab intelligence agencies often do through  making the state institutions and their civil servants show their  loyalty to the ruler under the pressure of threats and salary extortion,  Dr. Qassem underlined in a press statement on Friday to the Palestinian  information center (PIC).</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He stressed that if there was a free will  in the West Bank, no one would go out, but what happened in the last few  days were demonstrations held by members of the security apparatuses,  PA civil servants, and some students in order to serve a particular  goal.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7gr0ZyTFifdOHSgC%2f4nUEh5j5NWLz0kaiO29O9UtXTZxVOtRTlllcgMMNEqmKGYzhPJNyR%2fuyXGCShi0jwF9FwlC3qat5WSCaqSDDoQepIBs%3d">Massive protests in Gaza demanding Abbas to step down</a>.</p>
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