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WITH: PALESTINIANS-HAMAS CAMPAIGN: A Palestinian youth of the Hamas movement yawns as he participates in a rally in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, Tuesday Jan. 25, 2005. After hinting it would temporarily suspend attacks on Israel, the Islamic militant group Hamas shifted its focus to politics Tuesday as its candidates hit the campaign trail in towns throughout the Gaza Strip to stump for upcoming municipal elections. The photograph on his headband shows Hamas commander Salah Shehadeh killed on July 2002 with 14 others, many of them civilians, when Israeli plane dropped one-ton bomb on his Gaza house. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)