Egypt 'won't force Gazans back'
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Egypt says it will not use force to return Palestinians who crossed from Gaza after the border was breached.
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Hamas will not be edged out of power, accept compromise or recognize Israel, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told tens of thousands of banner-waving supporters at a rally Friday.
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Egypt is doing too little to stop arms smuggling into Gaza, which emboldens the militant group Hamas and weakens rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said on Thursday.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Egyptian troops kept their distance from the breached Gaza border on Saturday a day after a security guard was shot in the foot, allowing thousands of Palestinians to stream unhindered into Egypt.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Palestinians streamed home across Gaza's breached border with Egypt on Sunday as Egyptian authorities choked off supplies to the area and vowed to restore control.
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An Irish woman who crossed a breached border into Gaza with her daughter said Wednesday that border guards were preventing them from returning to Egypt.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they are not bound by the Palestinian truce agreed with Israel in Egypt.
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Palestinian presidential favorite Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Tuesday never to give up the late Yasser Arafat's bedrock demand that Israel recognize a "right of return" of Palestinian refugees.
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Egyptian border guards wielding clubs and electric prods directed throngs of Palestinians as they crossed into Egypt for a second day Thursday, but made little attempt to block the flow from Gaza.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Monday that Israel would not carry out disengagement under fire and promised that the army would respond with severity to continued attacks on Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel will not unilaterally withdraw from any other territories after carrying out the Gaza disengagement plan, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insisted Thursday, responding to comments to the contrary that Vice Premier Ehud Olmert made to The Jerusalem Post
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Gaza's former strongman was not around to rally disorganized Fatah forces when the territory fell to Hamas, but like most other Fatah officials, he refuses to accept personal blame.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian presidential  favorite Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Tuesday never to give up the  late Yasser Arafat's bedrock demand that Israel recognize a  "right of return" of Palestinian refugees.
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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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A senior Israeli official yesterday accused Egypt of failing to halt arms smuggling into Gaza, thus bolstering the militant group Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian leadership supported by the United States.
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Israel is determined to go ahead with its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip - regardless of the death of Yasser Arafat and even if settlers resist - a top Israeli general who helped design the plan says.
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Israel has a right to respond to security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.