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...zone, Netzarim is in an area of dense Arab population on the outskirts of Gaza City. Down the road sits the Palestinian village of al-Mograka, whose residents chafe at the restrictions that Netzarim's presence imposes on them. "People will never accept the settlement here," says Nasr Azzam, who runs the local general store. "It is a strange body and a symbol of the occupation...
...main organizations provided a pipeline for volunteers, funding and relief workers. One was the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, and the other was the World Muslim League, supported by Saudi Arabia. Linked to them were smaller groups of activists and influential individuals, including charismatic recruiter Abdullah Azzam, a Jordanian-born Palestinian who brought in hundreds of zealous volunteers, and his New York-based agent, Mustafa Shalabi, who ran the Alkifar Refugee Center in Brooklyn, known as "the Jihad office." Both Azzam and Shalabi were murdered in 1991. Another key figure was Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, who fought...
...Fatch Azzam, another member of the coalition, said that the private security force was there because many of the protestors were non-citizen students, who want to avoid any trouble that might threaten their status in the country...
...addition to this protest, Azzam said the coalition has been raising money for a relief effort in Lebanon and holding teach-ins in the Cambridge area...
...Azzam said that a rally the group held yesterday at the Israeli embassy was broken up by mounted police, who rode into their picket line, injuring some of the protesters. Azzam added that one of the protesters is now hospitalized with a torn back muscle...