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 gunmen on Friday burst into the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza and arrested him, relatives said. He was the most senior Fatah politician to be detained since Hamas forces overtook the territory in June.
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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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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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JENIN: Israeli troops arrested five militants on Sunday from the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group, hiding in a house in the northern part of the West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Dozens of Palestinian security men affiliated to Fatah staged a mass break-out on Tuesday from the camp where they have been held in the Egyptian town of Rafah, security sources said.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers  killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the  leading Palestinian militant group.
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Israel on Tuesday captured a top Hamas militant accused of ordering and planning suicide bombings that killed 55 Israelis, the military said.
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Alan Johnston, who had been held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials.
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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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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.
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Hamas fighters took over the headquarters of the Preventive Security Service in Gaza City today, dealing a blow to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah.
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Hamas' seizure of the Gaza Strip could be a hollow victory. With Israel in control of Gaza's borders and the international community likely to shun it in favor of the Fatah-controlled West Bank, Hamas will have a hard time providing for the impoverished strip's 1.4 million inhabitants.
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Gunmen burst into the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza early Friday and kidnapped him, the man's family said, in the first such abduction of a politician since Hamas forces routed their Fatah rivals and overtook the strip in June.
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Israeli forces arrested a senior Hamas leader today who is accused of masterminding a number of deadly attacks on Israelis, including a double-suicide bombing in a southern desert town in August that killed 16 people.
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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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Hamas has full security control, but no political authority. Ministries were deserted, the courts were not operating. All the major Fatah security headquarters have been ransacked along with the private homes of their key officers.