Hundreds flee Hamas-run Gaza
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Hundreds of Palestinians fled Hamas-controlled Gaza by land and sea on Saturday to the West Bank where President Mahmoud Abbas prepared to swear in a new government that will bring an end to a U.S.-led aid embargo.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - 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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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Tens of thousands of Palestinians on foot and on donkey carts poured into Egypt from Gaza Wednesday after masked gunmen used land mines to blast down a seven-mile barrier dividing the border town of Rafah.
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Two Palestinian militants travelling in the Gaza Strip managed to escape an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle seconds before it exploded Tuesday, security sources and witnesses say.
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The Israeli army raided south Gaza on  Friday in response to increasing Palestinian mortar attacks,  killing at least eight Palestinians and prompting hundreds to  flee their homes, witnesses and medics said.
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.
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Militants from Hamas threaten to overrun Gaza security positions belonging to Palestinian rivals Fatah.
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Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
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Thousands turn out in the Gaza Strip to protest against Hamas, despite a ban on public gatherings.
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Thousands of Palestinians are stuck in two Egyptian towns by the Gaza border, unable to return home amid an Israeli assault on the coastal strip, an Egyptian security official said Saturday.
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Several Palestinians are injured as security forces lose control of a crowd on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt.
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More than a thousand Palestinian pilgrims, including members of the militant Hamas group, were put in camps in the northern Sinai on Sunday until a dispute over how they will return to the Gaza Strip is resolved.
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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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JABALYA, Gaza Strip  - Thousands of supporters of the Islamist group Hamas protested in the Gaza Strip on Friday against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad that sparked Muslim outrage two years ago.
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Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip by the tens of thousands Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June.
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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.