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A Palestinian woman walk by lists of voters placed on a wall decorated with painted palm trees as she arrives to vote for local elections at a polling station in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, near the border with Egypt, Thursday May 5, 2005. Voters flocked to the polls in 8 municipalities in the second step of the first ever local elections in the Gaza Strip, with the Islamist group Hamas confident of a strong showing in its stronghold. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)