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Palestine : TX : USA | Oct 18, 2011 at 8:22 AM PDT
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GAZA CITY, 18 OCT - At least 200 000 people gathered in Gaza to accommodate about 300 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel today. The AFP said the organizing committee.

The crowd had gathered in the square of the Katiba where the official ceremony was planned, and the prisoners were still in Rafah, the Egyptian border, where they arrived in the morning, added the same source.

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