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In boost for Hamas, top Arab diplomat visits Gaza (AP)

June 13th, 2010

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa of Egypt, 2nd right, talks to an aide, while Gaza Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, left, talks to members of the media, following their meeting in Gaza City, Sunday June 13, 2010. The Arab world's top diplomat made an unprecedented tour of Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sunday as part of a growing <b>international</b> push to end a 3-year-old Israeli blockade of the territory. Moussa's visit was the first by a senior Arab official to Gaza since the Islamic militant Hamas movement seized the territory in 2007. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - The Arab world’s top diplomat declared support Sunday for the people of blockaded Gaza in his first visit to the Palestinian territory since Hamas violently seized control of it three years ago.


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