Rafah
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Thousands of youngsters between the ages of six and 16, can participate in a summer camp where they receive military as well as religious training. Islamic Jihad run the paramilitary summer camps for 10,000 children.
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Boys between the ages of 6 and 16 participate in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad summer camp where they receive military and religious training.
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Fishermen in Gaza suffer from a shortage of fishing boats and the difficulty of importing from abroad, which has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007. Many of the fishermen build their own fishing boats.
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The al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades is the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, a set of various Palestinian militant organizations which operate in the Gaza Strip and are regarded as terrorist organizations by Israel and the USA.
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As militants show their combat skills during a graduation ceremony.
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Temperature day 38 while Meteorological Department suggested that the weather is hot and dry and dusty, where been a significant increase in the temperatures become higher than the annual rate up to 7.8 degrees Celsius.
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An explosion rocked a residential area in Rafah city of the southern Gaza Strip. Authorities believe it is due to an undetonated bomb left over from a previous war. Emergency services attended to the scene and there were no reported causalities.
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Palestinians peanut vendors toast peanuts in the Gaza Strip.
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The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip reopened, five days after its closure by Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues, witnesses said.
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The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, closed for five days by border Egyptian security officers angered at a kidnapping, was reopened early. Two of the captives had worked at the crossing.
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Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said, while checks are made.
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Egypt sent police reinforcements to the Sinai after an attack on a police camp in the wake of the kidnapping of security personnel. The abductions in the Sinai prompted angry police to shut down border crossings with Gaza and Israel.
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Egyptian police closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza in protest at the kidnapping of colleagues in the Sinai peninsula, a security source and witnesses said.
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Palestinians and Arab Israelis are preparing to mark Nakba Day on May 15 which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin after the establishment of Israel state in 1948.
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