Hardest-hit Gazans look to new government for hope
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Zamel Wafi wakes up at dawn each morning to comb the Gaza beachfront for scrap metal that he can sell to try to feed his wife, seven children and donkey.
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Rivals Hamas and Fatah will present a national unity government to parliament for approval Saturday, in hopes of ending deadly internal fighting and leading the Palestinians out of international isolation.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinians yesterday mourned the death of Yasser Arafat, quickly installed new officials in the top positions that he held, and vowed to create the first true democracy in the Arab world.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has alienated his right-wing Likud party with plans to withdraw from Gaza, begins a new legislative session fighting for his government's survival.
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JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians  sifted through the rubble of dozens of homes in a sprawling  refugee camp on Saturday after Israel ended its most powerful  assault in the Gaza Strip in four years of bloodshed.
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In what looked ever more like civil war, the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas battled those of the Islamist prime minister across Gaza on Tuesday and their unity government headed for collapse.
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A government will be comprised Hamas and the Palestinian AuthorityÂs own Fatah party.
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The U.N.'s top humanitarian affairs official visited Gaza Friday and said he was shocked by the "grim and miserable" humanitarian situation there. He urged that the territory's borders be opened to relieve the suffering.
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The country prepares to cut power to Gaza, hoping that residents will turn against Hamas.
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Fresh from a painful parliamentary defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he&#39;ll turn to his old rivals in the Labour party to save his shattered coalition and get the support he needs to leave the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian officials expressed hope Wednesday that US President George W. Bush&#39;s second term in the White House will bring changes to his policy toward the MiddleEast and the Palestinians in particular.
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Some people were full of hope that, with Arafat gone, Sharon might finally do something to make peace happen. These same people were shocked when the news came from the borders.
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Hundreds of Palestinians fled Hamas-controlled Gaza by land and sea on Saturday to the West Bank where President Mahmoud Abbas prepared to swear in a new government that will bring an end to a U.S.-led aid embargo.
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A little travel has gone a long way toward changing perceptions in Gaza.
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As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians alike are struggling with issues of political life and the forming of functioning governments, it is the former who may offer a lead to elements of the latter.
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A top UN official calls for an international presence in Gaza to help ease what she says is mass despair and suffering.
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Leaders of the two Palestinian political groups promised to form a new government to end a wave of violence.