Hamas challenges Egypt's bid to close Gaza border
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.
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Thousands of Palestinians are stuck in two Egyptian towns by the Gaza border, unable to return home amid an Israeli assault on the coastal strip, an Egyptian security official said Saturday.
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Hamas militants cement domination over Gaza but appear to make conciliatory overtures to Fatah.
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Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade.
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Egypt cuts off supplies to its border zone with Gaza to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area.
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Egypt allowed hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims stranded for five days along the border to enter the Gaza Strip on Wednesday over the objections of Israel, which had sought to keep out suspected members of the militant group Hamas.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Masked Palestinian gunmen and Egyptian forces exchanged fire on Monday at Gaza's border with Egypt, a day after Cairo closed the breached frontier, witnesses said.
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Hamas Islamist gunmen pressed on with their Gaza offensive on Wednesday, killing at least eight fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in a Palestinian power struggle bordering on civil war.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - A leading member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas entered Egypt from Gaza on Thursday to resume talks with the Egyptian government on arrangements at the border, a security source said.
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defense minister said on Thursday.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas used a bulldozer to widen a breach in the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday so trucks could pass out of the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory despite Egypt's efforts to seal the crossing, witnesses said.
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Hamas's government in the Gaza Strip called on Thursday on Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets and mortar bombs at border crossings with Israel that are used to bring food and other supplies into the territory.
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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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The Palestinian quest for an independent state is on the verge of collapse after Hamas declares Islamic rule in Gaza Strip.
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Analysis: Israel wants Egypt to reseal the border. But to do that Egypt needs agreement with both Hamas and President Abbas -- and the Palestinians aren't talking to each other
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Egypt boosted security along its volatile border with Gaza Friday after Hamas allegedly threatened to kidnap Egyptian troops if Palestinian militants arrested in Sinai are not released, a security official said.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt as local security forces struggled to keep the protest under control.