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No network had a reporter on the Gaza Strip for the victory parade by supporters of Hamas. They waved the radical Islamist party's green flag after five days of street fighting that left at least 90 dead. ABC aired voiceover videotape. NBC and CBS had reporters on the West Bank. CBS' Richard Roth found Hamas in a "generous mood, calling for reconciliation with the Fatah movement it drove out." Fatah still controls the West Bank, which may now benefit because of the rift with Gaza: "The United States, Europe and Israel say they will support Palestinian moderates by resuming financial aid to the West Bank, which was cut off a year ago." NBC's Tom Aspell found Fatah militiamen marching too--in a funeral procession not a victory parade. They "cursed Hamas for destroying Palestinian unity."
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