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The mass rally - under a sea of green flags - is being seen as a show of strength by Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since a violent takeover in June 2007.

In Cairo Israeli and Egyptian officials were to meet in a bid to renew a six-month-old Gaza ceasefire with Hamas.
The five-month truce between the sides has been shaken by recent violence.
In Gaza City, busloads of demonstrators flooded into the city from across the territory.

"Hamas has gone from stone-throwing to guns and rockets, from a support base of a few thousand people to a backing of millions in Arab countries and around the world," one of the movement's top officials in Gaza, Mahmud Zahar, said on the Hamas website.

Reports said senior Hamas leaders were expected to lay out the future of the Egyptian-mediated truce and Hamas's relations with rival Palestinian group Fatah, which rules the West Bank.

Hamas accuses Israel of failing to honour its side of the truce, under which it agreed to ease its blockade of Gaza.
Israel says Hamas has failed to stop militant groups from launching rockets and mortar rounds on its towns.

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