Israel seizes Hamas leaders, violence goes on
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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The killing of Hamas leader Izz ed-Din al-Sheikh Khalil in Damascus on Sunday marks another step in the struggle between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas organisation which has been responsible for a recent spate of suicide attacks.
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Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip seized on Monday a leading member of the al Qaeda-inspired Army of Islam, the group which says it is holding a BBC correspondent hostage.
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GAZA CITY: Israel killed a military leader of the radical Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, risking a new flare-up in violence on Friday just days ahead of a critical parliamentary vote on the evacuation of the Palestinian territory.
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Israel on Wednesday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest-ranking of more than 30 officials in the Hamas-led government jailed as part of a crackdown on the Islamic militant group.
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Israel killed eight Hamas militants, firing missiles into the sandy courtyard of a Hamas police station as the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for a strike in Israel.
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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Hamas militants, and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister in the West Bank as Gaza militants fired more rockets into Israel.
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Hamas says it has taken full control of Gaza, hours after Palestinian President Abbas declared an emergency.
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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.
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Israeli troops in the West Bank arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members Thursday, the army said, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the  Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West  Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing  that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip yesterday after attacking military posts controlled by the rival Fatah movement, whose own fighters responded with a daylight raid in the West Bank, broadening the civil strife.
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Israel unleashed a new round of airstrikes on Gaza and arrested a second Hamas member of the Palestinian unity government in the West Bank on Saturday, Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
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Israeli forces arrested the speaker of the Palestinian parliament at his house in the West Bank early Sunday, and pressed their monthlong offensive in Gaza against Hamas.
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A leader of the military wing of Hamas, who has long been high on Israel&#39;s wanted list, was killed last night in a missile strike in Gaza City.
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Israel killed a top leader of the Hamas  militant group and another gunman in an airstrike on their car  on Thursday in Gaza, days before a key parliamentary vote on  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.