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Thousands Demonstrate Against Gaza Withdrawal

By Linda Gradstein
Published July 19, 2005 at 10:00 PM MDT

Israeli demonstrators continue a standoff to oppose next month's planned withdrawal from Gaza. About 10,000 protestors have been camped out in a farming village in southern Israel since Monday. Israeli authorities said protesters would not be allowed to march in to Gaza as planned.

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Linda Gradstein
Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.

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