In Aftermath of Gaza Battle, Grim Realities
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While violence was largely over, people worried about how a round of deadly infighting postponed hope for an independent and unified Palestinian state.
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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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A period of relative calm in the Gaza Strip was broken by a nearly hour-long battle between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops that left at least one Israeli soldier and one militant dead.
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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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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip -- Blackened strawberries, shrapnel-torn rubber sandals, and shredded clothes strewn along a sandy road in the strawberry fields of north Gaza mark the site where seven young Palestinians, ages 10 to 17, were killed this month by an Israeli shell -- a remarkable horror even in a war full of horrors.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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With the Palestinian Authority cut off from funds, the Gaza Strip is enduring a severe economic depression with growing signs of malnutrition.
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The worst factional fighting in nearly a month raged among Palestinians in Gaza, with gunmen reportedly firing at the prime ministerâs home and office.
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Israeli forces moved into the Gaza Strip early Thursday in a hunt for weapons and wanted militants, sparking a fierce battle with Hamas militants that killed one Israeli soldier. It was the first time a soldier has died in battle since November, the army said.
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A photograph of one of the children of the Palestinian Kilani family is torn as it lies in the rubble of their house that was demolished by Israeli army bulldozers, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- Despite promises from Hamas leaders that their victory over rival Fatah forces has ushered in an era of security for the Gaza Strip, residents expressed more concern than hope yesterday about the future of their impoverished coastal territory.
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There is an air of relief blowing in with the hot sea breeze over the Gaza Strip these days, but it's one salted with worry that factional warfare which ended in victory for Hamas two weeks ago could swiftly return.
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Fighting in Gaza City between militant group Hamas and a rival Palestinian clan leaves at least four dead.
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Four Palestinian militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, raising the prospect that renewed violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
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Hamas battled to wrest control of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday from beleaguered Fatah forces in the latest and most brutal round of violence. Each side's supporters have hurled rivals from high-rise buildings, gunmen have roamed hospital wards looking to finish off wounded enemies and ordinary people have huddled at home, not daring to walk the streets.
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Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of dozens of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday &#151; the aftermath of Israel's 17-day military offensive, the deadliest in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians  picked through the rubble of dozens of homes in a sprawling  refugee camp on Saturday after Israel ended its most powerful  assault in the Gaza Strip in four years of bloodshed.