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AFP – Egyptian police have detained a pro-Palestinian student and blogger who is being held at an unknown location, the second such arrest in recent days, a rights group and a security official said on Monday.
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AFP – UN officials on Monday implored Israel anew to allow urgently needed aid supplies, including plastic bags and human rights textbooks, to enter the Gaza Strip.
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AP – Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the Gaza Strip and a militant died in a clash with troops on the border Monday, as an official of the moderate Palestinian government accused Hamas of trying to boost hawkish candidates in Israel’s election.
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AFP – The Islamist Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip have returned aid supplies they seized last week, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said in a statement on Monday.
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AFP – Israeli candidates scrambled to win over a record number of undecided voters on Monday, the eve of a tight parliamentary election dominated by the meteoric rise of an ultra-nationalist party.
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AP – In a sign of progress on a deal to end the Gaza crisis, Egypt has invited rival Palestinian factions to a reconciliation conference in Cairo this month, a Palestinian official said Monday.
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Reuters – Palestinian security officials in the West Bank denied accusations on Monday by their Islamist rivals that a man who died in their custody had been killed by President Mahmoud Abbas’s Western-backed forces.
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Reuters – Israel’s national election is likely to be a cliff-hanger, pollsters said on Monday, on the eve of a vote right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party had been forecast to win.
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AFP – Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in support of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on Monday as its West Bank leaders railed against the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza.
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AFP – Israeli candidates scrambled to win over a record number of undecided voters on Monday, the eve of a tight parliamentary election dominated by the meteoric rise of an ultra-nationalist party.
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