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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/26/us-palestinians-hamas-death-idUSBRE88P0RI20120926
Rare Anti-Hamas Protest in Gaza
(Reuters) Nidal al-Mughrabi - At least 500 protesters in Bureij in Gaza called for the overthrow of the ruling Islamist Hamas on Tuesday in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage. The boy died and his infant sister suffered critical burns when a candle lit amid a power outage burned their house down. "I hold both the governments in Gaza and in the West Bank responsible for what happened to us," said the dead boy's father, Abdel-Fattah Al-Baghdadi. Hamas spokesman Taher Al-Nono said the death was a message to Egypt that it had to speed up its promised efforts to help solve the power crisis in Gaza.