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PHOTOES
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| A Palestinian
youth reads Muslim holy book Koran inside the damaged De
al-Noreen mosque near the border between Egypt and the southern
Gaza strip in the Rafah camp, August 31, 2005. Egypt's
intelligence chief met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and
militant factions on Monday in a bid to coordinate security and
border issues ahead of Israel's planned troop pullout from the
occupied Gaza Strip. Israel has evacuated 8,500 Jewish settlers
from the Strip and says it expects to withdraw its troops from
the area by mid-September to end a 38-year-old military
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| A Palestinian flag is seen near
of the wall along the Egypt-Gaza border in the southern Gaza
Strip town of Rafah, with the Philadelphi corridor, under
Israeli control, seen in the middle, Thursday Sept. 1, 2005.
Egyptian and Israeli generals were to sign the accord in Cairo
later Thursday to allow 750 lightly armed troops to deploy in
the area along the border, overriding a demilitarization clause
in the 1979 peace treaty. The troops, waiting for the green
light in the Sinai Desert town of El Arish, will begin deploying
72 hours after the signing, the officials said. |
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