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Some Gaza women smolder over Hamas’ water-pipe ban (AP)

July 18th, 2010

A Palestinian woman smokes a water pipe at a cafe in Gaza City, Sunday, July 18, 2010. Gaza's Hamas rulers have banned women from smoking water pipes in cafes, calling it a practice that destroys marriages and sullies the image of the Palestinian people. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - There are few pleasures left for Gaza’s 1.5 million people, squeezed by both a blockade and Hamas efforts to impose its strict Muslim lifestyle. And women here just lost another one.


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