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PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Hamas embraces Abbas call for dialogue
Hamas leaders welcomed a call for dialogue from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, although aides say that he has not dropped demands that the dissident faction first cede control of Gaza.
GAZA - USA
US to try to fix Palestinians' Fulbright worries
Condoleezza Rice will check into reports that Palestinian students had their Fulbright scholarships revoked by the US State Department due to their apparent inability to travel out of Gaza.
ISRAEL - PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Thousands protest Gaza blockade
Thousands of Palestinians joined a demonstration called by Hamas to protest the crippling Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops opened fire on demonstrators as they approached the border fence and wounded six, medics say.
GAZA - UNITED NATIONS
Archbishop Tutu slams world's silence on Gaza
As he concluded a three-day UN fact-finding mission to Gaza, South African Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu stated at a news conference that the world community's "silence and complicity" on the troubled region "shames us all."
GAZA - ISRAEL
Israeli army leaves five dead in Gaza
Five Palestinian fighters were killed during an Israeli military incursion in the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics and Palestinian militants said, reducing confidence in a possible Egypt-mediated truce.
GAZA - ISRAEL
Hamas excludes soldier Shalit from Gaza truce deal
The Islamist militant group said on Tuesday that the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured nearly two years ago, would be considered only as part of a prisoner swap agreement.
UN - PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
UN aid supply to continue in Gaza
The UN Works and Relief Agency received supplies of fuel to continue aid operations in the Palestinian territory. The agency almost suspended aid due to fuel shortages caused by an Israeli blockade. UN spokesperson Chris Gunness spoke to FRANCE 24.
MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS
Palestinian factions agree to Israel truce
Palestinian militant factions meeting in Cairo agreed on Wednesday to a proposal for a truce with Israel, set to begin in the Gaza Strip. The Jewish state said it would stop Gaza air raids if there was an end to missile-fire.
GAZA - FOOD
UN resumes Gaza food aid
Following a four-day stoppage of fuel deliveries that disrupted food aid, the UN Relief and Works Agency is now able to resume it. Israel has minimised supplies as part of an embargo.
GAZA STRIP - AIR RAID
Teenage girl killed in Israeli raid
A 14-year old girl was killed when a missile hit her house, in one of two early morning Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip. At least eight others were wounded.
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