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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.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues a brief visit to the Middle East, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Rice praised Sharon's decision to remove 1,600 Israeli settlers from Gaza and withdraw from the northern West Bank.

Clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in northern Gaza leave one Israeli soldier and more than 20 Palestinians dead. Israel invaded Gaza with the stated goal of freeing a captive soldier and protecting its territory from Palestinian rockets.

Israeli tanks and troops have moved into southern Gaza. Warplanes have attacked three bridges and knocked out power to the coastal strip. The attacks are an attempt by the Jewish state to step up pressure on Palestinian militants holding a 19-year-old Israeli soldier captive.

The ballooning crisis over a captured Israeli soldier held by militants in the Gaza Strip has revealed fractures within Hamas. Exiled leaders have appeared more radical than those inside Gaza and the West Bank. But as Israeil troops gather at the border, divisions have emerged in Hamas' internal leadership as well.

Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl may have been his biggest audience yet, but for the people he has represented since his start — his fellow Puerto Ricans — it meant something special.

In an upsurge of Mideast violence, Israeli soldiers kill at least six armed Palestinians in raids in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was the first Israeli incursion deep inside the Gaza Strip since it withdrew settlers and troops from there last year.

The Palestinian president accuses Hamas of trying to assassinate him, as Israeli warplanes and tanks hit targets in northern Gaza.

Hamas militants appear to be gaining the upper hand in the fight against gunmen from the rival Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip. There is now no talk of a cease-fire, and the "unity" government has collapsed. A group of Palestinians staged a protest against the fighting and came under fire.

Fatah supporters continue vigorous and sometimes violent protests over the outcome of Palestinian elections, which left the militant Islamist group Hamas in power. Fatah's leaders are under pressure to resign.

On the eve of the Israeli pullout from Gaza, Palestinian school principal Khalil Bashir hoped merely to visit the roof of his home, which the Israeli army had occupied for five years. He made it. Now he'd like the soldiers to return, but as civilians... and as his guests.

Robert talks with Datya Itzhaki, the spokesperson for the municipality of the Gaza region of Israeli settlements. She describes the fighting between Israeli and Palestinian soldiers in Gaza, and how it is affecting settlers there.