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Tensions rise as Gaza doctors strike against Hamas sackings
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Tensions rose in the Gaza Strip as doctors struck for a second day Sunday to protest what they said was the Hamas-run government's firing of health workers loyal to the rival Fatah movement.
Participation in the strike climbed to around 90 percent, a senior medical official at Gaza City's main Al-Shifa hospital said, as patients lined up in hospital waiting rooms across the impoverished territory.
Emergency health workers and doctors loyal to Hamas are still working.
The medical official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said Hamas-run security forces had started rounding up doctors and health workers and taking them to hospitals by force.
The doctors went on strike Saturday to protest the sacking of some 50 doctors and...
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