Israelis Are Gone, but Gaza Rebuilding Is Slow
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Little construction has taken place since Israeli soldiers and settlers pulled out of the Gaza Strip in summer 2005.
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_ Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday in the aftermath of Israel&#39;s deadliest offensive in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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Life slowly returned to the battered Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona on Tuesday, as residents emerged from grimy bomb shelters and began cleaning up the wreckage caused by more than a month of Hezbollah rocket attacks.
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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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Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip's main power plant on Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that had plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.
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Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of dozens of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes today - the aftermath of Israelâs 17-day military offensive, the deadliest in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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After the emotional fury of Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral quiet has descended on the occupied territories as Palestinians step cautiously into an uncharted future.
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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GAZA CITY: Palestinians searched through the rubble of their demolished homes in southern Gaza on Sunday, hours after Israeli troops ended a two-day operation that killed 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others.
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Palestinian searched through the rubble of their demolished homes Sunday, hours after Israeli troops ended a two-day operation in southern Gaza that killed 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens.
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Seven months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s astonishing announcement of a plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip ignited a tiny spark of hope among people searching for some way out of another ghastly intifada.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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While Gaza was mostly calm during the day, several previous cease-fires have broken down.
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For a start, his absence, temporary or permanent, has the potential of throwing a monkey wrench in the Israeli leader&#39;s much-trumpeted plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and evacuate Israeli settlements in this overpopulated Palestinian
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Washington hoped to neutralize Hamas by strengthening Abbas. But the rout in Gaza has left that strategy in shreds
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The Israeli company that provides fuel to the Gaza Strip today restored supplies amid fears cutbacks would hurt ordinary Palestinians.
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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...