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A Palestinian man detained in Egypt for a year and a half returned home to the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Monday, after an early release from prison.
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Israeli authorities opened Tuesday Karem Abu Salem crossing partially to allow the entry of tens of vans loaded with aids and construction materials for international institutions projects in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Palestinians in Jordan constitute both the majority of the kingdom's population, and the largest Palestinian refugee community in the world. In the 1960s, Jordan was the main area of operation for militant Palestinian factions who used it as both a recruiting and training ground for guerrillas, as well as a launching ground for most commando operations into occupied Palestine. After the 1967 war, the largest of these factions joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which grew so strong within the kingdom that it was described as a state within the state. The Jordanian regime and its military launched an 11-day war against the PLO in September of 1970, expelling the fighters from the kingdom's urban centers, and dealt a final blow to the Palestinian resistance in July 1971, expelling the fighters that remained to Lebanon and Syria.
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Read more: Interview: Jordan revoking citizenship from Palestinian refugees
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he activists make it to the town of Al Arish, 50 km from the Gaza border, where they're greeted by local leaders who promise they'll supply hundreds of volunteers to show solidarity with the suffering of Gazans. The leaders call for Egypt to revoke its peace treaty with Israel and for former President Husni Mubarak to be prosecuted.
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“They are giving me the chance and I’ll pass this year with high marks, I am sure,” says 16-year-old Mahmoud Buhaisi, from the eighth grade at Gaza’s Deir El Balah boys’ school. “We are all good. The teacher is good too. He explains things to us very well, and things are becoming much clearer than before.”
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Read more: Determined to succeed: students grab second chance in Gaza
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A new UNRWA campaign is tackling the high rate of iron deficiency (anaemia) among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, where one-in-four pregnant Palestinian women suffer from the disorder, as do a high number of children under the age of three. In Burj Shemali camp near Tyre, for example, an UNRWA survey found some 80 per cent of children under three to be anaemic.
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