Palestinian PM returns to Gaza, leaving money behind
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Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from carrying $35 million into Gaza on Thursday, allowing the Hamas leader to return from fund-raising in Muslim countries only after he left the money behind.
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Israel transferred to the Palestinians on Sunday a portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds it had frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas while isolating Hamas.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- As Yasser Arafat lies in a coma in a French hospital, the Palestinian prime minister has made a rare visit to Gaza to keep the region calm.
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Israel let more than 200 laborers enter  from the Gaza Strip for the first time in months on Sunday in a  gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he tries to  strengthen a cease-fire agreed last week.
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President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government paid Palestinian Authority workers, excluding some 19,000 who report to Hamas, their first full wages in 17 months on Wednesday.
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Plans to resume salary payments to government workers have become the latest battleground for rival Palestinian factions struggling to win the support of the residents of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas has postponed a tour of Muslim countries because of Israeli travel restrictions, his office said Monday.
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Ignoring Hamas' vehement protests, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday swore in a new government without his political rivals, outlawed Hamas militias and said he'll push hard for a restoration of foreign aid to the Palestinians after a punishing 15-month boycott.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will not travel to Gaza on Tuesday as planned to   try to revive talks with Hamas on forming a unity government,   his spokesman said on Monday.
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Israel prevented Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh returning to Gaza from a trip abroad on Thursday to stop him bringing in money donated by Muslim states.
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A leading member of the  Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas entered Egypt from Gaza on  Thursday to resume talks with the Egyptian government on  arrangements at the border, a security source said.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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The move ends Israelâs fiscal isolation of the Palestinians, which began with the installation of a Hamas government last year.
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Israel said the Palestinian prime minister was carrying millions of dollars in cash that could be used for terrorist attacks.
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The United States and Europe Monday restored direct aid to the Palestinians in a show of support after president Mahmud Abbas fired a Hamas-led government following internecine clashes.
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An official of the Palestinians&#039; Hamas-led government who returned from a seven-nation trip with &#36;20 million in his luggage said Saturday that he will continue to funnel money across the Egyptian border despite European objections.