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Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike on a wood factory in east Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike on a wood factory in east Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Explosion and smoke rise following an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An Israeli woman stands outside a damaged house hit by a rocked fired from the Gaza Strip that hit a house near the Israel-Gaza border, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants are continuing for the third day.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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An Israeli woman walks through a damaged house hit by a rocked fired from the Gaza Strip the hit a house near the Israel-Gaza border, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants are continuing for the third day.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Palestinians stand on the rubble of the destroyed house of Hamas militant Mohammad Abu Shmala, following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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** File ** A Palestinian Hamas militant walks in the rubble of the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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A Palestinian child walks through a damaged mosque after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Palestinians inspect the rubble of the destroyed house of Hamas militant Mohammad Abu Shmala, following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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Palestinian children walk through a damaged mosque after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Israeli security forces search for a rocket thought to have been fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Hamas rocket squads targeted Israel's self-declared capital Jerusalem for the first time Friday, along with commercial hub Tel Aviv, showing off their expanded reach with what they said are Gaza-made projectiles being fired for the first time. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Israeli soldiers with armored vehicles gather in a staging ground near the border with Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants are continuing for the third day.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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** FILE ** In this Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House. Asked to name the one step they'd push most urgently if they were the newly re-elected President Barack Obama, a dozen leading economists advise President Barack Obama to sidestep the "fiscal cliff" during his second term of office. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague shakes hands for the cameras with the head of the new Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces Mouaz al-Khatib before a meeting on the continuing conflict in Syria, at the Foreign and Commonwealth office in Whitehall central on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/ John Stillwell/Pool)