Hamas' Gaza faces bleak times
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Hani and Miriam's two-year-old son cried when fighting between Hamas and Fatah raged outside the family's Gaza City apartment, bullets coming through the windows. They told him the noise was just a party and the mortar blasts were the sound of frolicking elephants.
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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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RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 -- All but sealed off by Egypt and Israel, Gaza presented an intensifying security concern to its neighbors and a fast-approaching humanitarian crisis Sunday, three days after its takeover by Hamas.
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Fears of fuel and water shortages after security cabinet declares Hamas-controlled territory an "enemy entity".
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In what looked ever more like civil war, the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas battled those of the Islamist prime minister across Gaza on Tuesday and their unity government headed for collapse.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- Mohammed Wahdan, a 20-year-old Palestinian farmer, waited until his mother's four-day funeral had ended, until the last mourner had left his family's crumbling farmhouse on the edge of the Gaza Strip.
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Analysis: The meeting of Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is designed to warn Hamas of the consequences of going it alone
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The Gaza violence has forced the United Nations to suspend most of its relief operations for Palestinians trapped in the middle. How the fighting is affecting education and aid.
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The Palestinians&#039; Hamas-led government, nearly bankrupted by international sanctions, has resorted to bringing in cash in suitcases to help keep itself afloat. But given the government&#039;s crushing debt, a scolding from European border monitors and Israeli concerns the money could be used for violence, the tactic could fizzle out fast.
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KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- Young militants have flooded the ranks of the Palestinian factions, bringing a new mixture of lethal zeal and contempt for practical, political solutions to a long-term war against Israel they don't expect to win in their lifetimes.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government does not have enough money to pay tens of thousands of employees, the finance minister said Wednesday, raising fears of more unrest in the chaotic West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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To the alarm of Washington, Hamas has seized the advantage in the increasingly vicious war between Palestinian factions
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Mahmoud Abbasâs declaration was both a challenge to the Hamas movement and a risky effort to break a political stalemate that could backfire.
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Hamas militants cement domination over Gaza but appear to make conciliatory overtures to Fatah.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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Large parts of Gaza were plunged into darkness on Sunday when its main power plant shut down after Israel closed the borders of the Hamas-controlled territory and blocked fuel supplies.
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A Hamas political leader warned Saturday of a new uprising if no progress is made to establish a Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war with Israel.