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Rami Almeghari is an independent journalist based in Gaza.
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![A member of Hamas security forces checks a truck loaded with gravel at the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip December 30, 2012. Israel eased its blockade of Gaza on Sunday, allowing a shipment of gravel for private construction into the Palestinian territory for the first time since Hamas seized control in 2007.
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![A Palestinian woman waits for the return of Fatah movement activists at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip December 3, 2012. The Islamist Hamas group allowed the 10 activists of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, who fled Gaza into Egypt in 2007 during internal fighting between the two political rivals, to return home in what the group said was a sign of rapprochement, according to a Hamas official. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/03/RTR3B66V.jpg/RTR3B66V.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=zM92WMdJ)
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![Palestinian musicians play their musical instruments in Gaza city August 16, 2005 they prepare for celebrations marking Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. Israeli security forces poured into the largest Gaza settlement on Tuesday, clashing with protesters defying orders for Jews to leave the occupied territory by midnight or be forcibly evicted. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah AJ/JJ - RTRKP9D](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/03/RTRKP9D.jpg/RTRKP9D.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=gtwAhcwA)
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![Palestinians register for jobs at a Gaza trade union office in Gaza City October 24, 2011. Some 5,000 unemployed Palestinians have registered over the past week at the Gaza trade union office for jobs they hope will materialise in post-Gaddafi Libya, local labour officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2T4LF](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR2T4LF.jpg/RTR2T4LF.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=N-GX554t)
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![Palestinians ride camels during a competition in Dear al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip May 15, 2009. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA SPORT SOCIETY) - RTXHBGR](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTXHBGR.jpg/RTXHBGR.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=5HUh-vnR)
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![A wounded Palestinian is treated at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 23, 2012. Israeli gunfire at the Gaza border killed one Palestinian on Friday and wounded several others, medics said, two days after a ceasefire between the territory's Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel took hold. REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3AS3Q](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/02/RTR3AS3Q-001.jpg/RTR3AS3Q-001.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=qw-YECRJ)
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![French surgeon Christopher Bulstrode (2nd L) operates on a Palestinian patient as he trains Palestinian doctors in surgical procedures at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 15, 2009. Bulstrode arrived in Gaza on Monday for a one-week training session, aiming at upgrading the knowledge of orthopedic surgeons from Gaza in the field of war and trauma orthopedic medicine. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: HEALTH) - RTXRV42](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/01/1-RTXRV42.jpg/1-RTXRV42.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=dBPZBAxR)
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![Palestinian journalists react after an Israeli air strike on the office of Hamas television channel Al-Aqsa in a building that also houses other media in Gaza City November 18, 2012. Israel bombed militant targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day on Sunday, launching aerial and naval attacks as its military prepared for a possible ground invasion, though Egypt saw "some indications" of a truce ahead. REUTERS/Majdi Fathi (GAZA - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT MEDIA)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q4/RTR3AK4L.jpg/RTR3AK4L.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=iGgCwFP4)
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![Palestinian farmers harvest wheat on a farm in Khan Younis on the southern Gaza Strip May 6, 2012. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: SOCIETY AGRICULTURE BUSINESS)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q4/RTR31O2F.jpg/RTR31O2F.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=WF4K5F7x)
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