Gaza fighting flares, Hamas issues ultimatum
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Hamas gunmen stormed a Fatah security headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday, moving Palestinians closer to civil war, minutes after the Islamist group's deadline for Fatah to quit key facilities expired.
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Hamas Islamist gunmen pressed on with their Gaza offensive on Wednesday, killing eight fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in a Palestinian supremacy struggle escalating steadily into civil war.
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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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Hamas hardened its stance on Saturday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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In the third of his exclusive films for Guardian Unlimited, Clancy Chassay finds that the rise of Islamic Jihad and worsening conditions in Gaza are putting pressure on Hamas to return to violence.
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a two-and-a-half-hour long gun battle on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip near the Karni commercial crossing, the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in two weeks.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas Islamists overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two universities were set ablaze.
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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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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas on Wednesday demanded a central role in controlling the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt in an open challenge to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of crisis talks in Cairo.
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Palestinians battled on across the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday and eight more factional fighters were killed, raising the death toll to 55 in four days of the fiercest internal fighting in months, hospital officials said.
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GAZA CITY -- Hamas hardened its stance yesterday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend toll to four dead and 44 wounded in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces pressed ahead yesterday with one of the biggest offensives in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting, killing 10 Palestinian militants in dawn-to-dusk gun battles and airstrikes, according to officials from both sides.
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Deadly clashes between rival gunmen may presage a fight to the finish between Fatah and Hamas
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Hostilities escalated for the second time in a month as militant groups in Gaza stepped up their rocket fire against nearby Israeli population centers.
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Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 40 wounded in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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Gunmen from rival Palestinian factions clashed on the streets of Gaza on Friday in the latest round of internal violence that has brought the coastal territory to the brink of civil war, security sources said.