And they want to be in charge?

Here's a story of incredible barbarism. And, think about it. Hamas will be running against Fatah in the upcoming Palestinian elections. Gee, what a choice!

Hamas has mounted a desperate damage-limitation exercise after one of its units shot dead a 20-year-old Palestinian woman for "immoral behaviour" as she enjoyed a day out with her future husband.

Angry residents of Beit Lahia, close to Gaza City, have demanded - so far in vain - that the Islamic armed faction hands over three of the gunmen still at large to the Palestinian Authority after what the victim's family believes was a tragically unjustified type of "honour killing".

The masked Hamas gunmen shot dead Yusra Azzami as she sat in the front passenger seat of her fiancé's Mitsubishi after they had forced it to stop. They went on to beat up her fiancé, Ziad Zaranda, and his brother, Rami, before escaping in the victims' car. Yusra's terrified sister, Magdalen, who was engaged to Rami, ran away before she too was beaten.

And, what will happen now?

Asked if they gunmen who fled were going to be handed over to the PA, [a Hamas spokeman] said: "If the families want to hand them over to the PA they can do that." He added: "Palestinian law allows crimes to happen like adultery and wine drinking. There have been recent increases in these crimes and no one is punished."