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Video: Gazan man takes to the streets to promote national unity Al Jazeera English, Mar 15, 2009
While the leaders of the various Palestinian factions are in Cairo discussing a unity government - one Gazan has taken it upon himself to heal the rifts. Yasser Meheissen, known as the Sheikh of National Unity, has collected 270,000 signatures urging factions to unite under one voice - and spends his days promoting unity from the ground-up, by engaging ordinary Palestinians on the streets of Gaza.
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