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Battered by Israeli Attacks, Hamas Focuses on Survival

(Knight Ridder/Miami Herald) Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson- The Islamic militant group Hamas these days is but a shadow on Palestinian streets it once ruled with Kalashnikovs and the Koran. Its key leaders are dead, slain in Israeli missile strikes. Its fighters are on the run. But Hamas is likely to regenerate. In summer camps across the Gaza Strip, children wear T-shirts glorifying the death last spring of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Behind the scenes, Hamas gunmen still have enough money to pay $7 a bullet to arms merchants. Yet Hamas ''isn't what it used to be,'' said Israeli military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dalal. "In the past, they could spend 24 hours a day coordinating their cells; now they are spending 23 hours a day figuring out how to hide.''
2004-08-13 00:00:00
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