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Zach Brophy and today the story of an election that surprised everyone. Not least the victors. In January 2006

Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and annexed East Jerusalem voted in the first legislative elections in a decade.

And crucially, for the first time ever, the Islamist Hamas movement

were part of the process.

There were like a lot of excitement, a lot of interesting stuff. Everybody was talking about the election.

It was the most topic in the society at the time.

Hazenbalusha is a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza and in the run-up to the elections he was working in the

media office for the Palestinian Central Elections Commission.

He was among a generation of young Palestinians who had never before had a chance to vote.

Palestinian politics had always been dominated by the Fata Party and the late leader Yasser Arafat.

But now a serious contender was on the scene.

So Hamas participation was a challenge for factor.

Hamas participation meant at the time that Hamas is trying to be more pragmatic,

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