(Reuters) Nidal al-Mughrabi and Noah Browning - The first torrential downpour of an approaching winter has soaked Gaza, compounding the misery of thousands of Palestinians whose homes were wrecked in the summer war with Israel. The flow of building material will largely depend on whether the Palestinian Authority extends its writ to Gaza, now run by Hamas. Local businessmen say a mechanism agreed by the UN, Israel and the Palestinians for construction materials to move into Gaza remains vague and plagued by red tape.
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