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Fri 06 Jun 2007An anniversary date for FatahJune 14th will be etched on the memory of Fatah officials as a day of humiliation and pain when, as one of them put it, their Palestinian brethren in Hamas showed them less mercy than Israel.There was an overwhelming sense of depression and shock as Fatah watched Hamas gunmen take over Gaza security headquarters, kill their leaders, and loot their homes and offices.