The Palestinian Authority president called the Gaza withdrawal his people’s biggest reason to celebrate in a century. “This is a day of happiness and joy that the Palestinian people have not witnessed in a century,” Mahmoud Abbas told reporters Monday as Israel completed its Gaza pullout.
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