President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian unity government and declared a state of emergency after masked Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas looters broke into former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat's home and stole military outfits, photographs of his daughter, and his Nobel Peace Prize. “I see Iraq here,” a bystander in Gaza said. “There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us.”
In Crawford, Texas, Cindy Sheehan resigned as the “'face' of the American anti-war movement.” “Good-bye America,” wrote Sheehan. “You are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it.”