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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Palestinians who are on a hunger strike were expelled to the Gaza Strip

Gaza City (AFP)-A Palestinian prisoners ' hunger strike in which Israel had expelled to the Gaza Strip.

Ayman Sharawneh (37), who was arrested for firing up Palestinian protest, has signed a deal to stay in Gaza for 10 years, said Qadura Fares, a leader of the Palestinian resistance groups.

As reported in Reuters, Sharawneh is a citizen of Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied territories of the West Bank of Jordan River.

Sharawneh was released from jail Israel as part of Israel's exchange of a soldier detained for more than five years in the Gaza Strip in 2011.

Sharawneh, who was hospitalized during the hunger strike, Israel was taken by using an ambulance to the Gaza Strip through The Erez Crossing.

He was taken to the main hospital in Gaza City, where he received a warm welcome as a hero. Dozens of supporters greeted him with a HAMAS flag.

Association of pro-HAMAS detainee stated Sharawneh treated in the intensive care room.

Ismail Haneyah, Prime Minister of the HAMAS Government, praised Sharawneh as a "hero of the resistance".

He has been imprisoned in 2002, during the intifada (armed resistance) Palestinians in 2002. After being arrested, he was among four prisoners on a hunger strike as Israel does not pull out in protest. comment on the expulsion.

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Women leaders of HAMAS died of his illness in the Gaza Strip

Gaza City (AFP)-a woman lawmaker from the Islamic resistance movement (HAMAS), known as the "mother of battles", died of illness in the Gaza Strip, Sunday morning, said the HAMAS bloc in Parliament.

Mariam Farhat (64) died 24 hours after he returned from Egypt, where he has been undergoing treatment due to hepatitis.

Mariam became a star in the Gaza Strip with the nickname "mother of struggle" or "mother of martyrs", after three of her son--all of them HAMAS militants--were killed by Israel gunfire in separate incidents, said Xinhua--which monitored Between in Jakarta, on Sunday night.

In 2002, he appeared in one video amateur to say goodbye to his son (17) which will be launched an attack against Israel targets.

Her son managed to infiltrate into Israel settlements in the southern Gaza Strip and killed five students before he was shot dead.
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