Hundreds of thousands of Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza City on Saturday (December 15) in a show of force marking the Islamist group's 20th anniversary. The Hamas rally came amid heightened tensions with Israel as well as with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction, which the Islamist group routed from Gaza in June in a brief but bloody civil war. The central square where the rally was held in central Gaza City was awash with green flags and dozens of armed, masked men dressed in fatigues of the group's military wing patrolled in the crowd estimated at between 300,000 to 500,000. Dismissed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said 'today is the day of resistance, jihad and uprising' in front of hundreds of thousands of Hamas supporters. "Yes, today is the day of resistance, Jihad and uprising. The day will come for all of you crowds in Gaza," Haniyeh said during the rally. Founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, whom Israel killed in an air strike in...