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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Dion Nissenbaum and Ahmed Abu Hamda / The Bulletin
January 8, 2009
JERUSALEM — For three hours Wednesday, a surreal calm settled over the Gaza Strip as the 12-day-old Israeli military campaign to destabilize the militant Islamist group Hamas came to a temporary halt.
Palestinians who’d been huddling for days in their chilly, powerless homes....