Hamas fighters and looters control Gaza
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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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Islamic resistance group Hamas has scored significant successes in Palestinian municipal elections, initial results have shown. An unofficial tally gave Hamas control of seven councils against 11 for the Fatah
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Hamas security men beat protesters, hurled stun grenades and fired in the air to disperse open-air prayers the rival Fatah faction held in the Gaza Strip on Friday in defiance of the territory's Islamist rulers.
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip  - Men keep watch from windows, others guard the street as members of Fatah gather discreetly at a comrade's home in the Gaza Strip to discuss the movement's fate since Hamas seized control of the enclave.
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Hamas battled to wrest control of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday from beleaguered Fatah forces in the latest and most brutal round of violence. Each side's supporters have hurled rivals from high-rise buildings, gunmen have roamed hospital wards looking to finish off wounded enemies and ordinary people have huddled at home, not daring to walk the streets.
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Israel says its largest incursion in the Gaza Strip during four years of fighting is a victory. But Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, isn&#39;t admitting defeat.
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GAZA CITY, Feb. 3 -- Egyptian construction workers in blue hard hats rolled barbed wire across the last breaches of the Gaza Strip's border wall with Egypt on Sunday, reasserting Egyptian control of the frontier after Palestinian guerrillas used explosives and machinery to knock down the barrier.
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A few days ago, Hamas fighters stormed Fatah strongholds in Gaza that were allied with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and effectively took control of one of the two pillars of the evolving Palestinian state. Fatah groups struck back in the West Bank, the other Palestinian pillar, and...
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NABLUS, WEST BANK - Hamas will control the town councils of nearly a third of the communities that held elections this week in the West Bank, preliminary election results suggest.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed  14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading  Palestinian militant group.
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GAZA CITY - For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after seizing power.
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Israeli forces detained two Palestinians,   who the army said were Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on   Saturday in what marked the first such arrest raid in the   territory since Israel pulled out of Gaza a year ago.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 24 -- Egyptian security forces began imposing control over the country's breached border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, using clubs and dogs to police the thousands of Gazans still making their way past barricades blown up or toppled by Palestinian gunmen a day earlier.
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Israeli troops moved into southern Gaza under cover of darkness early Saturday, rounding up two Hamas militants in the first arrest raid in the coastal strip since Israel withdrew last year.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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An uneasy calm returns to Gaza where Hamas is in full control after attacks on key Fatah strongholds.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Islamic militant group  Hamas made significant gains in Palestinian municipal  elections, the first contested by the group sworn to destroying  Israel, initial results showed on Friday.