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Destroyed Gaza airport symbolizes grounded peace hopes

RAFAH, 12 Sep 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: The opening of the Palestinians’ first airport, in the presence of US president Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence and peace kindled by the Oslo accords. But 25 years after Israeli and Palestinian leaders signed the first of the historic agreements on September 13, 1993, the airport in Gaza lies in tatters, along with Palestinian hopes for an independent state. Today the concrete arrival halls remain in place, but much of the rest of the site is covered in piles of rubbish and rubble — the remnants of years of war and neglect. The runway, 60 meters (65 yards) wide, is scattered with refuse, dragged in by donkey cart from nearby refugee camps. Daifallah Al-Akhras, the chief engineer of the airport, admitted he wept on a recent visit to the terminal. “We

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2 Gazans martyred by Israeli gunfire near buffer zone

GAZA, 19 Sep 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: At least two Palestinians were martyred Tuesday evening amid ongoing anti-occupation rallies along the fraught Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.  “Two Palestinian protesters were martyred by Israeli army gunfire near the Gaza Strip’s northern border,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in a statement. Earlier Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians converged on the buffer zone as part of ongoing demonstrations against Israel’s decades-long occupation and the ongoing blockade of the Gaza

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Fire erupts at Iraqi Oil Ministry building in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, 17 Jan 2019 [Fik/News Sources]: A fire broke out at Iraq’s Oil Ministry headquarters in central Baghdad on Thursday, according to a local police source. Ahmed Khalaf, a Baghdad police officer, told Anadolu Agency that the fire had torn through at least one floor of the building. Civil-defense teams, he said, were still fighting to prevent the blaze from spreading to other floors. "There is no information thus far regarding the extent of the damage or the cause of the fire," he said. Several Iraqi government institutions have been damaged by fire in recent months. Earlier this month, at least nine people were killed when a fire tore through a government-run women’s shelter in

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