Editorial: Faint hope in Gaza
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has won parliamentary endorsement of a plan to remove all 8,000 Israeli settlers and the troops who protect them from the Gaza Strip.
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The Fatah leader has popular support, but faces lawlessness and other challenges.
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While senior Israeli and Palestinian officials were cautiously optimistic about the rapprochement between them, some political analysts and people on the street said they could not shake their pessimism about the future, despite signs that things could get better.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh fainted briefly Friday during a speech to an outdoor rally in Gaza City, but he resumed it after several minutes.
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Hamas-ruled Gaza will likely see little of the unprecedented $7.4 billion in aid promised to the Palestinians by the international community on Monday.
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RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 -- All but sealed off by Egypt and Israel, Gaza presented an intensifying security concern to its neighbors and a fast-approaching humanitarian crisis Sunday, three days after its takeover by Hamas.
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2004-10-06 | Gaza, an ongoing tragedy with seemingly no end in sight to killings, destruction and humiliation. It seems almost redundant, or at least perfunctory, to report that the United States has once
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As the international community continued to flirt with the idea of reviving the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, the Israeli occupation army continued to savage and brutalise Palestinian civilians throughout the Gaza Strip and in
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Hamas seizes Gaza. What's to be done--and more importantly, who's going to do it? A lame duck president with the lowest approval ratings in two generations, and an Israeli prime minister whose government is on life supports?
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Is there hope in the Middle East in the aftermath of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, or will the optimistic noises now being made fizzle out into the usual confrontation?
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Gaza's children used to light colorful lanterns to mark Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. But this year, many parents can't afford those small $1 toys as the coastal strip sinks deeper into poverty amid an aid cutoff to punish the Hamas-led government.
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The Israeli Knesset&#39;s approval of a plan to dismantle Jewish settlements in Gaza and part of the West bank raises hopes for Middle East peace progress, but, as always in the region, there are myriad uncertainties.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The agreement yesterday between Palestinians and Israelis that Yasser Arafat will be buried amid his ruined headquarters may represent the first faint ray of hope for a fresh start toward peace in the post-Arafat era, Middle East officials and observers say.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Fatah's old demons -- lack of leadership, petty quarreling, corruption -- are being blamed for its dismal showing in the fight against Hamas in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM The readers of al-Quds, the leading Palestinian newspaper, opened the opinion pages this month  to a jarring sight. In the editorial cartoon, once the daily forum for a sharp jab at the Israeli occupation, appeared two bushy-bearded Hamas officials clutching suitcases full of cash.
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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The Zionist armyâs attacks on residential areas in Gaza reached a peak over the past week. So far, at least 63 defenseless people from Gaza have been martyred in Israelâs military operation, codenamed Days of Penitence.