Gaza pilgrims stranded in Red Sea
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A political dispute leaves 2,000 Palestinians returning from the Hajj stuck in boats off the Egyptian coast.
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GAZA CITY -- For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after...
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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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NINE British Christians were killed in a bus crash yesterday as they made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Three Jordanians also lost their lives in the accident on the Desert Highway near the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.
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GAZA CITY - For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after seizing power.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 14 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was stranded for much of Thursday in the Egyptian Sinai after Israel barred him from entering the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in cash, a standoff that prompted armed demonstrations by his Hamas movement and gunfire as his convoy crossed the border hours later without the money....
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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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Christians in Bethlehem, considered to be Jesus&#39; birthplace, pleaded for help in a radio report Wednesday, September 29, as Israeli soldiers pounded alleged militant positions killing at least six Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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TABA: Rescue workers sifted through the wreckage of an Egyptian Red Sea hotel yesterday, hoping to find survivors after a series of three bombs targeting Israeli tourists in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least 33 people.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 14--Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was stranded Thursday in the Egyptian Sinai after Israel barred him from entering the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in cash, prompting gunmen from his Hamas movement to open fire on the border crossing in a show of force.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas has postponed a tour of Muslim countries because of Israeli travel restrictions, his office said Monday.
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TABA, Egypt  - Rescue workers began to lose hope  of finding survivors in the rubble of an Egyptian Red Sea hotel  on Saturday, almost 48 hours after three bombs aimed at Israeli  tourists killed at least 33 people.
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Gaza City in darkness after Israel blocked fuel shipments to electricity plant
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Hundreds of Palestinians are allowed to leave Gaza to make the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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A Palestinian schoolgirl runs past the rubble of a destroyed building next to a United Nations school in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004.
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Hundreds of Palestinians thronged two major West Bank checkpoints, trying to reach a key Islamic shrine in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, despite tight Israeli restrictions.
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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 g...