Tue Jan 28, 8:36 AM ET |
An armed settler chooses his ballot behind the polling booth during the Israel Knesset elections January 28, 2003 at a polling station in the Jewish settlement Kdumim, near Kalkilya. Israelis began voting in a general election that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s right-wing Likud party looked set to win on a wave of support for his hard-line policies against a Palestinian uprising. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti |
Tue Jan 28,10:20 AM ET |
Palestinian schoolboys passby a Hamas painting and graffiti on a wall outside the home of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin the spiritual leader of the militant Islamic group Hamas, in Gaza City Tuesday Jan. 28, 2003. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin during an interview with Associated Press condemned Tuesday's election in Israel, saying that Hamas would continue fighting whoever held power in Israel. Arabic on graffiti reads 'Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigade, a military wing of Hamas'. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) |