Gaza rivals pull back, free some hostages
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Gunmen began withdrawing from Gaza's streets, some hostages were released and many shops reopened on Sunday as a shaky ceasefire appeared to be taking hold in factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, residents said.
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Israel frees a large group of Palestinian prisoners in a move intended to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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GERAKAS, Greece: A dramatic 19-hour hostage siege on board a bus in Athens ended without bloodshed yesterday after two Albanian gunmen freed the last of their 23 hostages and surrendered.
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A daylong hostage siege ended here early Thursday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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The Hamas-led police force and the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security force began swapping prisoners on Tuesday that each side took hostage during a surge of Palestinian infighting, officials said.
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Palestinian militants resumed rocket and  mortar fire at Jewish settlements in Gaza on Tuesday, throwing  down the gauntlet to newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud  Abbas and his call for calm to talk peace with Israel.
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Israeli tanks and troops clashed with militants in eastern Gaza early Saturday, Palestinian security officials said, as Israel broadened an incursion to force the release of a captured soldier.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed early on Wednesday after a late-night deal between the ruling Hamas Islamists and the al Qaeda-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March.
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A daylong hostage siege ended early yesterday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after attacking military posts controlled by the rival Fatah movement, whose own fighters responded with a daylight raid in the West Bank, broadening the civil strife.
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After a shaky start, the cease-fire appeared to be holding today after most Palestinian factions stopped firing rockets in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal of troops.
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Forces loyal to Hamas appeared to consolidate their hold on northern Gaza and much of Gaza City, with 12 people wounded in clashes with Fatah.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Israel  - Israel released dozens of Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas Islamists took over the Gaza Strip last month.
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Fatah and Hamas members abducted by gunmen were freed late on Monday as part of deal between the two side, Fatah and Hamas sources said.
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Thousands of Palestinians streamed  home through the breaches in Gaza's border with Egypt on Sunday  after Egyptian authorities choked off supplies to the area and  moved to restore control.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian presidency, campaigned on Thursday in the Jenin refugee camp, where he was lifted on the shoulders of gunmen