However, Hamas won the 2006 parliamentary elections in both the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with a majority of 74 out of 132 seats, to Fatah's 45 seats.
Before he was killed, the Palestinian leadership tried to silence Banat many times.
Ever proud and sharp-tongued, in one video Banat declared he would only accept the ruling of a judge who managed to beat his own score of 94% in the bar exam.
Everyone is a target, but they want to make women too afraid to even come outside.
At the station, she said she had to stop officers from trying to take young women away from the main holding cell.
They added that we will oppose all the attempts to harm it, to harm its image, and to exploit this event i.