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        12/2/2007, Kislev 22, 5768

      Hamas Stops Census


      According to the Associated Press, Hamas has ordered census workers to stop counting Gaza’s population.  Hamas claimed that the workers were passing data along to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in Ramallah but failed to give the same data to the Hamas-led PA in Gaza. 

      The census will be the first count of PA Arabs in a decade.  The PA’s last census was controversial, and has led some experts to speculate that there are far fewer Arabs living in Judea and Samaria than has been claimed.