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Palestinian youths parade with wooden weapons at a Hamas-run summer camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2011. The Islamist movement Hamas is holding summer camps throughout the Gaza Strip, where participants from 14 to 17 years-old take part in physical exercises and psychological training. In the background the Turkish flag, after the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan statement that he was considering visiting the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a move likely to anger Israel amid diplomatic efforts to overcome already strained bilateral ties. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib
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