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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP | The Hamas-run government has announced that Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have agreed to a cease- fire in an effort to halt spiraling violence with Israel. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that it had received a positive response to its efforts to stop the violence from escalating.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The United Nations has launched a new plan to teach the Holocaust in Gaza schools, drawing fierce condemnation from Gaza's militant Hamas rulers, schoolteachers -- and even the body tasked with peace negotiations with Israel. If implemented, it would be the first time most Palestinian children learn about Jewish suffering. But the outcry underscores how sensitive the issue is to Palestinians.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli soldier, with the crowd and a freed Hamas leader exhorting militants to seize more soldiers for future swaps. Hamas, which had negotiated the release, turned the celebration into a show of strength for the Islamic militant movement, which had seized Gaza from its moderate rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in 2007.
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Throngs urge Hamas, Fatah to end feud GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Thousands of Palestinians thronged major squares in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Tuesday to deliver an impassioned appeal to their leaders to end the long- running feud that has divided the Palestinian people between two rival governments.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Tuesday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding others. Israel said it targeted militants before they could carry out an attack on the border between Israel and Egypt. Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said the militant was killed and another two injured in the explosion when a rocket hit his motorcycle Tuesday evening.
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State media tout ouster CAIRO -- Egypt's state and pro- government media have abruptly changed their tune. Faithful mouthpieces of Hosni Mubarak's regime until the end, they now celebrate the ouster of the longtime Egyptian president -- and pledge to be more attentive to ordinary Egyptians. State TV even promised to be more truthful in its reporting. During the 18-day uprising, state TV and pro-Mubarak newspapers portrayed the hundreds of thousands of protesters as a minority of troublemakers. While raucous protests raged in downtown Cairo, state-run Al-Nil TV showed serene videos of the Nile River. But on Saturday, a day after Mubarak's resignation, the message had been turned upside down. "The people ousted the regime," proclaimed the once pro-Mubarak Al-Ahram on its front page. A sta...
...In Gaza, a celebratory rally organized by the radical Isla...
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The Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - At 29, Tahani is considered a spinster by the standards of deeply conservative Gaza. So in her search for a husband, she turned for help to the best in the marriage business: the Islamic militant group Hamas.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Gazans and their ruling Hamas officials are pessimistic, even dismissive, of the Obama administration's effort to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Good luck with that, said Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas foreign affairs officer.
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Cheline Lundin, 25, First In Line In Chicago; Hopes It Will Be 'A Best Friend.' At the same moment, back home in Gaza City's Al-Sabra neighborhood, an Israeli missile destroyed a dairy and cheese factory (the second such target), killing and injuring several people while eliminating yet another source of nourishment for the nearly 900,000 children trapped behind walls in the besieged Gaza Strip. While not a multi-billion dollar corporation like Apple, its destruction had a far greater impact on Dalloul's family and the people of Gaza than could the debut of an electronic device that facilitates reading and Tweeting.\n Even abroad, Fox's reputation preceded it, so my curiosity forced me to watch. [...] WikiLeaks had released 2007 film footage of American soldiers firing into a Baghdad ...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Arab world's top diplomat declared support Sunday for the people of blockaded Gaza in his first visit to the Palestinian territory since Hamas violently seized control of it three years ago. The visit was latest sign that Israel's deadly raid on a flotilla trying to break the blockade of Gaza has eased the diplomatic isolation of the Islamic militant group.
