Hamas on offensive as Palestinians battle in Gaza
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Hamas Islamist gunmen pressed on with their Gaza offensive on Wednesday, killing eight fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in a Palestinian supremacy struggle escalating steadily into civil war.
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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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Palestinian resistance operations against the Israeli forces have been escalated. News reports in Gaza said five Israeli soldiers and one woman settlers were killed in three separate clashes in Beit Hanoun
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Palestinians fight back as security forces try to stop exodus from Gaza through Rafah wall.
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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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JERUSALEM -- Hamas dealt Israel its first combat death in nine months yesterday during an Israeli Army raid on a stronghold of the movement's military wing in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a lengthy gun battle on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip near the strategic Karni commercial crossing, the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in two weeks.
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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas says two of its fighters died in clashes with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM, June 12 -- Fatah and Hamas gunmen resumed intense street fighting Monday and Tuesday in the Gaza Strip after Egyptian efforts to mediate a new cease-fire failed to draw scores of masked gunmen off the streets.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas Islamists overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two universities were set ablaze.
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Hamas Islamist fighters gained ground on Wednesday against forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in battles for control of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian supremacy struggle he termed "madness".
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Palestinians battled across Gaza on Tuesday in what looked ever more like civil war as the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas rounded on those of the Islamist prime minister and their unity government headed for collapse.
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Rival members of two Palestinian security  services fought running street battles in Gaza on Monday,  witnesses said, in a fresh blow to stability in the occupied  Strip ahead of Israel's planned pullout next year.
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Fresh fighting in Gaza between rival Palestinian groups kills one Hamas commander and injures 30 men.
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Gunmen of rival factions Hamas and Fatah sharply escalated their fight for supremacy in what is beginning to look increasingly like a civil war.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas battled on Wednesday for control of the Gaza Strip in an escalating Palestinian supremacy struggle he described as "madness".
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Fighting between Fatah and Hamas escalated Tuesday, leading some to consider the deployment of a multinational force to police the volatile territory.