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Protests against Anti-Islam Film in Gaza, Tel Aviv

Several hundred Palestinians in the Gaza Strip protested on Thursday against an anti-Muslim film that has sparked deadly riots in Libya and Yemen.

The protest, called by the ruling Hamas government's ministry of religious endowments, comes after two days of demonstrations that have left four U.S. embassy staff including the ambassador dead in Libya and a protester shot dead in Yemen.

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Hamas PM Postpones Cairo Security Talks

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has postponed until next week a Cairo trip for top-level talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Qandil, a spokesman said Thursday.

Haniya had been scheduled to travel to Egypt on Thursday for discussions on security in the wake of an August 5 attack which killed 16 Egyptian border guards in the northern Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel.

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Hamas Condemns Anti-Islam Film, Gazans Protest

The Palestinian Hamas movement on Wednesday condemned an anti-Muslim film that has sparked deadly riots, as a handful of Gazans burned U.S. flags to protest against the movie.

The low-budget film, "Innocence of Muslims," portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent. It sparked protests in Egypt and Libya, where rioters attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, killing the ambassador and three others.

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Israel to Compensate Gaza family over War Deaths

Israel has agreed to compensate a family from southern Gaza whose two sons were shot dead by Israeli troops during the 22-day war over New Year 2009, a rights group said on Monday.

According to a statement from the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Israel has agreed to pay compensation of 430,000 shekels ($108,315, 84,760 euros) to the Shurrab family from Khan Yunis over a deadly incident which occurred shortly before the end of the massive Israeli operation.

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Palestinian Inventor Builds Gaza's First Electric Car

The boxy little white and blue vehicle draws plenty of curious stares as it chugs down the street. But this is no golf cart -- it's Gaza's first hand-built electric car.

It is the latest creation of Munther al-Qassas, a 32-year-old taxi driver from Gaza City who was looking for a novel way to get around as the tiny Palestinian enclave goes through its worst fuel crisis yet.

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4 Israeli Raids on Gaza after Rockets Fired, 1 Child Injured

Israel carried out four air raids against the Gaza Strip early Monday, wounding a Palestinian child, witnesses and Palestinian medics said.

The aircraft also targeted a police post in the El Tufah neighborhood east of Gaza City and carried out two raids in the north of the territory, witnesses said.

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Three Gaza Rockets Hit Israel, House Damaged

A rocket fired from Gaza crashed into a house in southern Israel on Sunday, causing heavy damage but not casualties, as two more landed near the city of Beersheva, an Israel police spokesman said.

Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said one rocket hit a house in Netivot and caused damage to a second, while two others landed near Beersheva, a city of 194,000 people.

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Two Rockets from Gaza Hit Israel

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets at southern Israel, which exploded in open fields early on Friday and caused no damage, a military spokesman told Agence France Presse.

"Two rockets hit the Sdot Negev region this morning. Nobody was hurt and there was no damage," he said.

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3 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Fire in Gaza

Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, raising to six the number killed in the past 12 hours, medical sources said.

"We have received three bodies," said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, saying the three had been killed by an Israeli tank shell just east of the town of Beit Hanun.

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Israel Frees Hamas Lawmaker

Israel freed Hamas lawmaker Mohammed Abu Tir on Wednesday after holding him prisoner without charge for a year, the Islamist Palestinian movement reported.

Abu Tir, a lawmaker for Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, was first arrested in June 2010 and expelled to the occupied West Bank the following December after he refused to leave east Jerusalem despite an Israeli interior ministry order revoking his residency permit over his ties to Hamas

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