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Recently-freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (R) is escorted by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) as he leaves the presidential Elysee palace after a meeting on February 08, 2012 in Paris. Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of Shalit, who was...

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A member of Hamas' security forces closes the gate of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 30, 2011. Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in...

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An Egyptian soldier climbs a control tower on the border with the southern Gaza Strip as seen from the Palestinian side of Rafah on January 30, 2011. Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in Gaza,...

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A Palestinian man rides a motorcycle near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 30, 2011. Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in Gaza, an...

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Former Israeli Justice Yaakov Turkel is seen during the conclusion of the Turkel commission report on January 23, 2011, in Jerusalem, as an Israeli probe ruled that a deadly May 2010 raid on a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid ships, which killed nine Turkish activists and soured ties with Ankara,...

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Amjad al-Zaanein 17, during his funeral in Beit Hanun, on the north of the Gaza strip on January 18, 2011. The teenager was killed and two other people were injured as Israeli tanks carried out an operation in northern Gaza Strip.

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A relative of Palestinian farmer Shaban Karmot, 65, mourns over his body in the morgue of a hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza strip, on January 10, 2011 after he was shot dead by Israeli troops in Beit Hanun, a town which lies about two kilometres (just over a mile) south of the Erez...

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Palestinians take part in a rally organised by Hamas marking the second anniversary of the Israel-Gaza war in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 6, 2011.

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The bodies of two Palestinian men are seen in the morgue of Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 6, 2011 after they were shot dead overnight by Israeli soldiers on the border between Israel and Gaza.

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Head of Hamas administration in Gaza, Ismail Haniya waves as he meets members of the 'Asia 1' aid convoy in his office in Gaza city on 04 January 2011. Some 100 activists With the 'Asia 1' aid convoy crossed to the the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border with Egypt, early on January 3,...

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Palestinian Hamas premier of Gaza, Ismail Haniya (R) wave to the crowd during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Azadi (Freedom) Square in southwestern Tehran on February 11, 2012 in which Ahmadinejad said that Iran has broken...

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Ghazi, son of Palestinian Ali Zarna, inspects damages at his family's home following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on February 19, 2012. Three people were wounded in the strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man.

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Relatives of Palestinian Ali Zarna inspect damages at his house following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on February 19, 2012. Three people were wounded in the strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man.

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A Palestinian man inspects damages following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on February 12, 2012. A Palestinian man died after being wounded in a series of retaliatory Israeli air strikes, Gaza medical sources said.

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The Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, speaks to the press as he stands next to chairman of Kuwait's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Ali al-Ghanem, following a meeting in Kuwait City on February 8, 2012.

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Hamas policemen march along a street in Gaza City on July 26, 2011. Gaza's Hamas rulers executed two Palestinians who were sentenced to death by hanging for collaboration with Israel, an interior ministry statement said.

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Passengers on the US Gaza-bound boat, 'The Audacity of Hope' prepare to set sail from Athens on June 30, 2011 to join the flotilla to Gaza. Passengers on the US boat to Gaza rejected as ludicrous and provocative an unsubstantiated accusation by the Israeli Army that passengers in the...

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Pro-Palestinian activist showing a board writing "No embargo of Gaza", protests in front of Effel tower in Paris, France, Sunday, July 10, 2011, after part of Pro-Palestinian activist was blocked by police at the Charles de Gaulle airport last Friday. Israel increased security at the...

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Gazan engineer Dirar Abu Sisi (2nd R) looks at his lawyer (L) during a remand hearing at the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba June 16, 2011. Israel charged the detained Palestinian engineer in April with hundreds of counts of attempted murder, accusing him of...

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Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech a day after the signing of a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, in Gaza City, Thursday, May 5, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have signed a landmark reconciliation pact, ending a four-year rift...

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Members of Hamas' security forces inspect cars in the Gaza border town of Rafah, on April 16, 2011, after a radical Islamist group killed an Italian activist just hours after kidnapping him. The Hamas government said today it has arrested two more suspects in connection with the murder...

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An Israeli soldier works on his tank near southern Gaza strip border near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom April 9, 2011. Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday, responding to increased rocket fire out of...

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The sun is seen setting over the northern Gaza strip as seen from the border near Kibbutz Nir Am April 9, 2011. Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday, responding to increased rocket fire out...

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GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL - APRIL 09: A rocket being launched from Gaza is seen from the Israeli side of the Gaza border on April 9, 2011. Tension is rising along the Israel-Gaza Border as Israel retaliates to rockets fired by Hamas militants with air strikes and shelling, killing at least...

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An Israeli air force drone is seen flying over Gaza as seen from the northern Gaza strip border April 9, 2011. Israel killed four Palestinian militants and wounded half a dozen others as it pursued air raids in Gaza for a third day on Saturday, responding to increased rocket fire out of...