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BBC News
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Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed.
Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th..
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BBC News
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Israel has allowed fuel to be delivered to Gaza's power plant, averting the possibility that it would be forced to shut down within hours.
Palestinian officials had warned that the plant would run out of fuel on Wednesday, plunging large areas of Gaza..
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BBC News
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Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups.
They include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid.
They criti..
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CNN
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Most Israeli tanks and troops pulled out of northern Gaza early Monday, and an Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed that the military was ending its five-day offensive operation. The attacks targeted Palestinian militants who launched dozens of rocke..
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CNN
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Egyptian soldiers in riot gear formed a human chain Friday along parts of their county's border with Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have crossed back and forth with little interference for the last two days. Other soldiers rolled barbed wir..
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CNN
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At least 50,000 people poured from Gaza into Egypt on Wednesday to buy food and fuel after Palestinians blew holes in the border wall, according to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. The exodus came after Israel closed all its Gaza border crossings Friday to..
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CNN
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Residents of Gaza on Monday were coping with power cuts which led to long lines at bakeries and darkened hospital wards, but Israel said reports of a humanitarian crisis were exaggerated. Israel closed all border crossings between Israel and Gaza on Frida..
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MSNBC
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Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing four militants in the widest operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control in June.
The violence took place on the eve..
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BBC News
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At least five people have been killed in gunfire at a rally organised by Fatah in the Gaza Strip to mark three years since the death of Yasser Arafat.
Security forces from the rival Hamas movement opened fire at crowds causing people to run for cover,..
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USA Today
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Israel's Security Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" Wednesday, Israeli radio stations reported.
The decision would let Israel cut off vital electricity, water and fuel supplies to the Palestinian territory, which the Islamic militant Ha..
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SF Gate
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A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded Monday next to a day care center in the Israeli border town of Sderot, an attack that Palestinian militants called retribution for the deaths of three Gaza children in an Israeli air strike last week.
None of..
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CNN
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza since March 12, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, a Palestinian source close to negotiations for his release said.
The source and another Palestinian i..
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CNN
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Clad in what appeared to be an explosive vest, kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston warned in a new video that his captors would turn their hideout into a "death zone" if any rescue attempt is made.
Although it was unclear when the clip -- po..
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BBC News
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Israel says it will allow a number of Palestinians who have been trying to flee the Gaza Strip to enter Israel for urgent medical treatment.
They are among dozens of people stranded at the Erez border crossing for days - some in a desperate state.
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Al Jazeera
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On Monday a Palestinian was shot dead and 10 others wounded at the crossing, Palestinian medical sources said.
The Israeli army said armed men from the Palestinian side opened fire at the people in an attempt to force them to return them to Gaza...
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Guardian Unlimited
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Hamas fighters took over two security command centers and vanquished the rival Fatah's movement in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, prompting beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the Hamas-Fatah unity government.
Hamas also seized con..
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FOX News
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Israeli tanks and infantry pulled out of the southern Gaza Strip early Tuesday, halting the largest ground operation in the area in months.
The troops entered the sparsely populated area on Monday, pushing more than a mile into Gaza. Soldiers searched..
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FOX News
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Israeli airstrikes targeted Hamas for a fifth straight day Saturday, hitting a rocket squad and two workshops in Gaza, and the defense minister warned militants who attack Israel they should be "very afraid."
But Defense Minister Amir Peretz also said..
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FOX News
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchanged automatic weapons fire Friday at a Gaza City university and Israeli war planes pummeled Hamas targets for a third straight day, killing eight people in response to the Islamic group's rocket attacks on southern Israel...
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Washington Post
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Israel this week allowed the Palestinian party Fatah to bring into the Gaza Strip as many as 500 fresh troops trained under a U.S.-coordinated program to counter Hamas, the radical Islamic movement that won Palestinian parliamentary elections last year. F..
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