Routed Fatah Begins to Reorganize in Gaza
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GAZA CITY -- The secular Palestinian party Fatah, routed in the Gaza Strip by rival Hamas forces nearly three months ago, has begun to use political protest and reassemble its armed wing in order to resist the Islamic movement's tightening hold here.
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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Eighteen months after his Fatah movement was trounced at the polls, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said yesterday that he will call new legislative elections in a move seen as seeking to further isolate the Islamic militants of Hamas.
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Palestinian security forces took up  positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant  attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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JERUSALEM -- Leaders of the Hamas and Fatah parties began operating parallel Palestinian governments yesterday after days of intense factional fighting that have sharply defined the political and geographic divisions undermining the Palestinian drive for statehood.
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In post-revolutionary Gaza, a green Hamas flag flies over the building which was once Fatahâs center of power and is now a tourist site for Hamas members and their families.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 24 -- Egyptian security forces began imposing control over the country's breached border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, using clubs and dogs to police the thousands of Gazans still making their way past barricades blown up or toppled by Palestinian gunmen a day earlier.
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The events of the past few days in the Gaza Strip underscore a trend that began some time ago. The fifth year of the conflict, which begins this week, is, at least in the meantime, the year of disengagement.
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Israeli forces have mounted a new incursion into the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. A military spokeswoman says soldiers were looking for tunnels being used to smuggle arms from Egypt and to hunt down Palestinian militants.
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The moves by Fatah seemed to solidify the split between Palestinians, and raised the risk of violence spreading to the occupied West Bank.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinian Authority said yesterday that it will disband a small security unit tainted by accusations of abuse, an initial step toward overhauling its bloated network of overlapping and competing security forces.
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_ Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday in the aftermath of Israel&#39;s deadliest offensive in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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A few days ago, Hamas fighters stormed Fatah strongholds in Gaza that were allied with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and effectively took control of one of the two pillars of the evolving Palestinian state. Fatah groups struck back in the West Bank, the other Palestinian pillar, and...
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Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip following a day of violence between gunmen from both groups, a Hamas official said on Sunday.
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Palestinian officials have disbanded a Gaza security force feared by civilians and under fire by human rights groups in one of the first concrete steps toward security reform in months, says a security official.
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Reformist former Palestinian Authority prime minister Abu Mazen will temporarily take over chairman Yasser Arafat&#39;s authority, Palestinian sources said.
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Forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas overran a Hamas ministry and sealed off the area around his compound on Sunday as the threat of violence hung over Gaza following the president's call for new elections.