Gazans stream to crossing with Israel
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Hundreds of terrified Gazans fleeing Hamas rule were trapped at a main crossing with Israel on Tuesday, hoping to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in the West Bank.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - About 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims who had been stranded in Egypt en route from Mecca entered the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday in defiance of Israeli demands, witnesses said.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt as local security forces struggled to keep the protest under control.
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Israeli troops enter the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza in a new attempt, they say, to stop weapons smuggling.
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Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on  Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza  Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza  homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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Palestinian militants forced open a border gate Friday between Egypt and Gaza, letting hundreds of people pour across despite warning shots from Israeli helicopter gunships.
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Residents of a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip have agreed to move to a community inside Israel and will begin the evacuation in March, an Israeli official said Sunday.
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Egypt allowed hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims stranded for five days along the border to enter the Gaza Strip on Wednesday over the objections of Israel, which had sought to keep out suspected members of the militant group Hamas.
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Fatah members were fleeing Gaza Friday as Hamas began trying to round up the remaining elements of the rival faction, Hamas radio reported.
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GAZA CITY, June 19 -- At the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a man with a three-day growth of beard and bluejeans raised his fist and let out a hoarse scream amid the stench and desperation of the dozens of men, women and children who have been gathered here for days, unable to go...
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EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip, June 20 -- Israel allowed Palestinians with severe health problems and foreign-passport holders to leave Gaza on Wednesday in a flight that reflected the humanitarian challenges that have arisen in the days since Hamas's violent takeover of the strip.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel eased its siege of Gaza for a day on Tuesday, allowing in shipments of fuel and medicine. But tensions erupted over Egypt's closure of its Gaza border, with Palestinian protesters breaking through the crossing and clashing with Egyptian guards.
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The flood of Palestinians out of Gaza is fraying relations between Israel and Egypt Â ostensible partners in peace but now bitterly at odds over the border chaos Â undercutting the chances that President Bush's Mideast initiative will succeed.
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Hamas and Fatah security officials traded fire at Gaza's border with Egypt on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh passed through on his way to reconciliation talks between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah group in Saudi Arabia, witnesses said.
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On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants Â puncturing a gaping hole in Israel's airtight closure of the Gaza Strip and giving a boost to Hamas.
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The  crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopened for two days, ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.