Clashes Between Hamas and Fatah Escalate
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The two factions battled today in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
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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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Mediation efforts are under way to defuse rising tension between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.
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Hamas gunmen stormed a Fatah security headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday, moving Palestinians closer to civil war, minutes after a deadline from the Islamist group to its rival to quit key strongholds expired.
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RAMALLAH/GAZA  - Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah opened fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank on Friday and firefights between the rival groups erupted in Gaza, raising fears of civil war.
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JERUSALEM -- Scattered clashes were reported yesterday around the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a day after fierce fighting between the ruling Hamas movement and rivals in the formerly dominant Fatah party.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and Fatah set the Islamic University ablaze.
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought in Gaza City's beachfront neighborhoods and around security compounds Saturday, ignoring renewed truce appeals and Arab mediation efforts. One man was killed, raising the death toll from three days of fighting to 26.
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Rival Palestinian forces clashed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday near the strategic Karni commercial crossing in the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in more than two weeks.
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A shaky cease-fire took effect on Monday between Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah after days of heavy fighting pushed the Gaza Strip to the brink of civil war.
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The mainstream Fatah movementcondemned on Thursday escalated Israeli military operations in theGaza Strip. Fatah said in a leaflet the escalated military operations in thenorthern
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The escalation in violence came a day after Israeli negotiators and Palestinian counterparts representing the West Bank leadership started peace talks.
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Three are killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip as Palestinian factions challenge the authority of Hamas.
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Sporadic gun battles continue in Gaza between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, despite a renewed truce.
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Six Palestinians were killed in clashes between Hamas and Fatah in some of their fiercest battles since the elections in January.
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Militants from Hamas threaten to overrun Gaza security positions belonging to Palestinian rivals Fatah.
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Hamas and Fatah supporters exchange shots outside a Gaza hospital, in the latest factional violence.