news.bbc.co.uk - 10/29/2009
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A Hamas member directs traffic in Gaza City. File photo
newyorker.com - 26 days ago
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newyorker.com —
In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt
and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing...
station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the ...
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Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, and Israel
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