Hamas captures major Fatah compound in Gaza
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Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas fighters hunted down key loyalists of the Western-backed Palestinian president in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after the Islamists seized most of the final strongholds of the secular Fatah movement in the enclave.
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Hamas forces have seized the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egyptian border, further establishing its control of the Palestinian territory, Palestinian security sources told CNN today. As many as 70 Palestinians have been killed since the Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence escalated four days ago.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The militant Islamic group  Hamas made significant inroads against the mainstream Fatah  movement in Palestinian municipal elections held last week in  the West Bank, official results showed Sunday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli troops seized a top Hamas militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
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Hamas militants broke three weeks of relative calm in Gaza on Tuesday, setting off a bomb in what they said was an elaborate scheme that included a tunnel and a double agent.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas militants defeated  the mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah in nine of 26 local  elections, results showed Sunday, in a foretaste of challenges  confronting emerging moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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Israeli forces detained two Palestinians,   who the army said were Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on   Saturday in what marked the first such arrest raid in the   territory since Israel pulled out of Gaza a year ago.
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A senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government was abducted by unknown gunmen in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, Abbas's Fatah faction said.
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Israeli troops seize a nine-kilometre area in Gaza to try to stop Palestinian rocket attacks inside Israeli towns.
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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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A man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative was freed Monday on a &#36;1 million bond, but must appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago probing the Palestinian militant group's financing.
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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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Palestinian militant group Hamas has won a huge victory in local polls in Gaza, unofficial results indicate.
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Israeli forces detained a senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing in the West Bank today during a night-time raid on his hideout, witnesses said.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and looters ransacked the blood spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday, rejoicing at the rout of their well-armed, secular rivals from the president's Fatah faction.
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Todayâs anti-Hamas demonstration was the largest since the Islamic militant group seized control of Gaza after a week of factional fighting in June.