Surrounded by rubble of destroyed houses, Palestin

Surrounded by rubble of destroyed houses, Palestinian Hassan Abu Taha, 56, sits with some of grandchildren in front of his partially damaged house, unseen, in the Brazil neighborhood of the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt, Saturday Jan. 29, 2005. For the first time since September 2000, the residents of the devastated camp, that had seen some of the fiercest fighting of the four-year Palestinian uprising, have reason to be hopeful. The deployment of hundreds of Palestinian police to stop attacks against Israeli troops has raised prospects of an end to massiveIsraeli military operations and reprisals and a welcome period of peace and calm. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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