Hamas: One year on

Gaza City, June 14 2007: A Hamas militant places a green Islamic flag on a guard tower as they celebrate their capture of the Fatah headquarters Photograph: Hatem Moussa/AP

Gaza City, June 17 2007: The deposed Palestinian Authority prime minister and Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh (second left), arrives to meet Salem Sabra, a Palestinian engineer who was released by Hamas fighters after being kidnapped 13 months previously Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Gaza City, June 25 2007: The BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston wears a belt that he said contained explosives during a short video released by Jaish al-Islam, or Army Of Islam. Johnston urged Hamas and the British government not to use force to free him, or else his captors would carry out their threat to detonate the explosives strapped to his body Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Gaza City, July 4 2007: The BBC reporter Alan Johnston (left) raises his hand with the former Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, after his release Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP

Al-Nusairat, Gaza Strip, October 23 2007: Hamas security officers inspect a destroyed vehicle after it was targeted by an Israeli air strike. An Israeli missile killed Colonel Mubarak al-Hasanat, a member of the militant Popular Resistance Committees, a Palestinian police statement said Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Gaza Strip, October 26 2007: A militant from the Hamas movement takes part in a press conference at the Jabalia refugee camp after Israeli troops killed three Palestinian gunmen in an air strike and ground clashes across the Hamas-run Gaza Strip Photograph: Mohamed Abed /AFP

Gaza City, May 22 2007: Two rockets are launched towards Israeli towns. Israel responded with four air strikes targeting two suspected arms caches and two Hamas bases Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Gaza City, December 15 2007: A security officer gestures as thousands of Hamas supporters gather for a rally marking the 20th anniversary of the movement's founding Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

Gaza Strip, December 20 2007: Israeli tanks roll back across the border after an army operation in the Gaza Strip Photograph: David Buimovitch/AFP

Rafah, Gaza Strip, January 23 2008: A bulldozer destroys part of a wall as Palestinians cross the border into Egypt after militants exploded the partition between the Gaza Strip and Egypt Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP

Rafah, Egypt border, January 24 2008: Palestinians transport goods they bought in Egypt back into the Gaza Strip after crossing the Rafah border Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Gaza City, February 28 2008: The body of five-month-old Mohammad Naser Al-Buri lies at a mosque during his funeral. Al-Buri was killed while he was sleeping at his home, after an Israeli aircraft strike on a neighbouring house belonging to the Hamas government's interior minister, Palestinian medical sources said Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Karni Crossing, Gaza Strip, March 1 2008: An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires from a position outside the Gaza Strip. Thirty-three Gazans, including at least 16 civilians, died in escalating violence Photograph: Moti Mirod/AP

Gaza City, April 2 2008: A Palestinian boy hammers concrete in the rubble of the Interior Ministry building to extract iron and floor tiles to trade. Taher Nono, the Hamas government spokesman in Gaza, said the Israeli embargo on goods entering the Gaza Strip meant no iron or cement had been imported into the territory in the past ten months. The ministry building was destroyed in an Israeli air strike two months ago Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty

Gaza Strip border crossing, April 16 2008: Arrested Palestinians wait at an Israeli army base after three Israeli soldiers and four Hamas gunmen were killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day Photograph: Pavel Wolberg/EPA

Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, April 25 2008: Young Hamas supporters ride a horse cart while one of them waves a flag as they attend a protest calling for the end of the the Israeli blockade on Gaza. Israel dismissed a Hamas proposal to call a conditional six-month truce in the Gaza Strip, calling it a ruse to allow the Palestinian group to regroup after recent fighting Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty