Gaza's Hamas worries as Egypt turns cold shoulder

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The coup in Egypt has cost Gaza's Hamas its most important foreign ally, while more and more ordinary Palestinians are getting caught up in the growing animosity between Egypt's new government and Gaza's Islamic militant rulers.

Thousands of workers in already blighted Gaza have been laid off because Egypt has closed the border, while some of the tens of thousands of Palestinians studying and working in Egypt are keeping a low profile for fear being targeted in an anti-Hamas backlash.

At issue are Hamas' ties with Mohammed Morsi, the Egyptian president whom the Egyptian military toppled a month ago, amid mass protests against him. Egypt's new rulers have portrayed Hamas and Morsi as co-conspirators in a plot to destabilize Egypt and harm the country's interests.

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