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Israeli forces monitor the border with the Gaza Strip on February 1, 2010 (AFP Photo / David Buimovitch) 03.02.2010, 12:07 15 comments

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Israel under pressure over 1,000 to 1 prisoner exchange with Palestine

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Iranian Shiite Muslim worshippers (AFP Photo / Atta Kenare) 30.07.2009, 09:16 1 comment

Shi’ism comes from Iran to Sunni Gaza

Palestinian divisions in Gaza are offering a way in for Iran, which is bringing fears in the region over the motives of the dominant Shia power, in an area which is traditionally Sunni Muslim.

Israelis hold banners showing captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (AFP Photo / Gali Tibbon) 27.11.2009, 10:56

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A Palestinian enters a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip that runs under the Egyptian border (AFP Photo / Patrick Baz) 27.01.2009, 09:44

Gaza tunnel network back to life

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Israeli mother: ‘I want my Palestinian kids back!’

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AFP Photo / Olivier Laban-Mattei 28.01.2009, 13:17

Other nations join in siege of Gaza

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Between a rock and a hard place: survival in Gaza

Published: 05 February, 2009, 09:20


AFP Photo / Patrick Baz

Life has never been easy in Gaza. Now residents are counting the cost of being caught between Hamas militants on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other.

 
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