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Palestinians in Gaza Hold Vigils For Slain Egyptians

No one is watching the events unfold in Egypt as closely as Palestinians in Gaza, whose future is tied to the crisis that its larger neighbor is going through.
Palestinians take part in a rally in support of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and in protest of the recent violence in Egypt, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 17, 2013.  REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX12P94
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Gaza's streets were empty as the majority of stores remained closed and most of the Strip's residents were glued to their televisions screens, watching the events unfold of the violent dispersal by the Egyptian army of the Muslim Brotherhood's camps in Nahda and Rabia al-Adawiya squares in Cairo on the morning of Aug. 14.

A surgeon named Talal al-Sharif, 59, was unable to leave his patients, so he simply watched television in the clinic's waiting room along with his colleagues. Everyone expressed their opinion on what was happening, and the likely international reactions that would follow.

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