'Big win for Hamas' in Gaza poll
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Palestinian militant group Hamas has won a huge victory in local polls in Gaza, unofficial results indicate.
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HAMAS has won significant victories in local elections in the West Bank, the first to have been contested by the Islamic militant movement that is sworn to see Israelâs destruction.
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Hamas fighters captured one of the last bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday and the Islamists declared the "liberation" of the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas made significant gains against the ruling Fatah party in Thursday's municipal elections.
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Hamas declared itself a significant political force after West Bank local election results were announced yesterday. It was the first time the Islamic movement, branded a terrorist
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in a Gaza Strip soccer stadium Friday in a massive show of support for the ruling Hamas group and its beleaguered government.
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The man widely expected to succeed Yasser Arafat in next year&#39;s Palestinian elections, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday appeared to win a power struggle in the dominant Fatah movement after a bloody gun battle in Gaza City.
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ARIEL Sharon won a striking victory yesterday when the Knesset approved his plan to evacuate Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip by a 67-45 vote, a wider margin than supporters had hoped for.
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The Hamas party further consolidated its control of northern Gaza today in Palestinian factional battles.
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Hamas Islamist fighters appeared in command of much of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after battering forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamists declared the "liberation" of the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon easily won a crucial party vote to reinforce his shaky government to carry out his Gaza pullout plan, party officials announced Thursday.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday 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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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in  their first-ever municipal elections on Thursday in a test of  support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups  ahead of Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territory.
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The terrorist group Hamas made a strong showing in the first municipal elections held in the Palestinian territories since 1976 according to preliminary results from the 26 communities which voted yesterday.
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The front-runner in the vote for a new Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, gets a rousing welcome in Gaza.
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As both BBC reporter Alan Johnston and Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit speak out, Hamas must show that it is powerful and responsible enough to win their release