BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (Reuters) - Slowly at first, then with growing confidence, the crowd of Palestinian women, all wearing traditional hijab gowns and coloured veils, approached the outer wall of the Gaza mosque.
Inside, 60 Palestinian gunmen were hiding out, pinned down by Israeli tanks and troops positioned just a few hundred yards away, on the other side of an earth barricade.
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