TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: GAZA CITY (CNN) -- About 150 pro-Fatah Palestinians seeking refuge from a Hamas crackdown in eastern Gaza City were allowed into Israel on Saturday, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman told CNN. Fatah members are led handcuffed and blindfolded through a Gaza City checkpoint into Israel on Saturday. They were let in at the request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas took control of a neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on Saturday. The Palestinians entered through a security checkpoint in Nahal Oz in the Gaza's northern region Saturday afternoon, the spokesman said. "They were asking to enter the state of Israel after being threatened by Hamas gunmen," the spokesman said.About 150 pro-Fatah Palestinians let into Israel after Hamas crackdown5 die in collapse of tunnel used to smuggle goods from Egypt to GazaAt least 4 killed, 60 wounded in Hamas battle with pro-Fatah clan in east Gaza CityHamas takeover the latest in week of Palestinian infighting 
 Question:Hamas security forces in Gaza had already detained hundreds of people affiliated with _ since five Hamas militants and a child died in the July 25 beach bombing.

SOLUTION: Fatah

PROBLEM: (CNN) Former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates will be able to spend Thanksgiving with their families and leave their homes this week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The two men have been under house arrest since special counsel Robert Mueller charged them on October 30. Both have pleaded not guilty. Manafort got the exception to be with his family on Thursday. Gates will attend all-day family celebrations Thursday and Friday. Neither will be allowed to drink alcohol, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in DC District Court on Tuesday. Manafort and Gates did not attend the hearing, but their lawyers did.The two have been under house arrest since being charged October 30Federal prosecutors are challenging one attorney for GatesGates pleaded not guilty along with Manafort, who shares some of the same charges 
 Question:In court Tuesday, the judge reprimanded _' attorney for sending information about Gates' home value through the clerk's office instead of in a public court submission.

SOLUTION: Rick Gates

PROBLEM: (CNN)The Pentagon's recent statement that Iran may have conducted air strikes against ISIS targets in Iraq's Diyala Province is tantamount to a U.S. tacit approval of Iran's growing military footprint in Iraq. No military operation of such scale evades detection from U.S. radars. Even if not pre-approved or coordinated, Iran's air and ground operations against the murderous thugs of self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi make the Islamic Republic effectively a U.S. partner in the fight against America's greatest enemy: Islamist fundamentalism. The U.S. strategy towards the Middle East since the Arab Spring has been defined by proactive disengagement and hesitance.The U.S. strategy towards the Mideast has been disengaging, writes Andreas KriegPresident Barack Obama increasingly appears to be the lame-duck, he writesKrieg: Good cooperation with Tehran allows the U.S. to put pressure on its Arab partnersAmerica's credibility as a superpower is in doubt, he says 
 Question:The broadcasted images of U.S. citizens being brutally beheaded in front of a global audience shook _ to its core.

SOLUTION:
U.S.