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AMMAN: Music enlivens the yellow taxi as it traverses the Jordanian capital. A small Palestinian flag hangs from the rearview mirror.

The wall appears to consist of an underground portion as well as an above-ground portion, which has long existed .

International solidarity with besieged Gaza is gaining momentum despite a Western media blackout.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul told President Shimon Peres at a private meeting in Copenhagen on Friday that only after Israel takes action to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip would he pay Israel a visit.

Galit Popok, a mother of six in Gaza, went to Israel with three children in 2006 to see her parents, and never came back, leaving the other three behind.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to swap Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip and West Bank in exchange for settlement blocs in the West Bank, the Haaretz newspaper reported Thursday, in the most detailed account of the former Israeli leader's proposed peace offer to the Palestinians.

Israel has allowed a shipment of flowers to leave the Gaza Strip, in a rare movement of goods out of the coastal territory.

Qatar Charity Society has distributed school kits and stationery to 145,000 students in schools in Gaza Provinces.

Freedom marches have a noble pedigree. Hundreds of thousands marched for racial equality in the 1960s US; among them was Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the march on Washington in 1963.

CAIRO [MENL] -- The U.S. military has been helping Egypt construct a 10-kilometer steel barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip.

The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate as neither Israel nor the Palestinians do enough to obtain peace, a senior U.N. official told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.

APART from Joe Sacco, the world hasn't got another full-time graphic novelist war correspondent.

WE MET our contact in Al Arish, the Mediterranean resort town in the northern Sinai, a 45-minute drive from Egypt's border with Gaza.

Retired nurse-practitioner Ann Polivka learned to swim and snorkle in the Mediterranean Sea.

Hamas militants carry portraits of the Islamic Resistance Movement's late founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin during an anti-Israel rally in the refugee camp of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday.

Cairo, Dec 17 : Egypt is building an underground wall along its border with the Gaza Strip in a bid to curtail the network of smuggling tunnels, a government-owned newspaper confirmed in a front-page editorial Thursday.

The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip on Friday began celebrations marking the Islamist movement's 22nd anniversary with parades and the unveiling of a huge mural depicting rockets targeting Israel.

Until less than a year ago, Nahal Oz was a place to stay away from or risk being hit by rockets from neighboring Gaza.

The Haaretz daily says former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed giving the Palestinians 100 square kilometers of Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip in exchange for West Bank settlement blocs.

ANKARA: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul held talks here Tuesday on the impasse in the Middle East peace process and the rift between Palestinians factions.