Some Palestinians are criticizing the decision to allow children to carry Kalashnikov rifles and dress as suicide bombers at a recent march of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement. Some also criticized gunmen at Wednesday’s march, which celebrated Fatah’s 38th anniversary, for shooting guns into the air all day.
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