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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Israeli troops and armor completed their pullback from built-up areas in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, but many soldiers have remained in the territory, redeployed
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BEIRUT -- In the Gaza Strip, Islamists aided by Iran finish off forces loyal to Washington's ally, Palestinian Authority 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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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Israel  - Israel released more than 250 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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The Hamas-led government won the freedom of the two journalists, but the deal may make it harder to gain the release of a captured Israeli soldier
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GAZA -- Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Palestinian officials early today after a late-night deal with the Al Qaeda-inspired, clan-based group that kidnapped him in March.
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The ruling Hamas faction deployed armed militants in key parts of the Gaza Strip on Friday, one day after it accused rival Fatah forces of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas sources said.
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KITSIYOT, Israel  - Israel released dozens of Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas Islamists last month.
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Hamas gunmen on Tuesday took up position around the stronghold of the kidnappers of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, as the Islamist movement hinted it could use force to secure the newsman&#39;s release.
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Hamas policemen and forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas withdrew from Gaza's streets on Wednesday as a fresh ceasefire aimed at halting a slide to civil war appeared to be holding.
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Hamas Islamists seemed 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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Israeli forces pulled back on Thursday after a raid into the northern Gaza Strip a day earlier in which troops killed 11 people in clashes with local gunmen and prompted calls for revenge from Hamas militants.
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The two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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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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Hamas Islamist fighters and looters ransacked the blood-spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday, rejoicing at the rout of their well-armed, secular rivals from the president's Fatah faction.
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Palestinian gunmen freed a top security  official on Thursday hours after abducting him in the Gaza  Strip in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule  amid a wave of unrest, witnesses said.