Hamas sees blockade end after deal
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian Islamist group Hamas urged the West on Friday to accept a new Palestinian unity government which it said was the only way to ensure stability in the Middle East.
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Palestinian militants signaled on Sunday  they would help maintain calm in Gaza for at least a month but  denied Israeli reports they had agreed to a cease-fire at the  behest of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Rival Palestinian factions signed a power-sharing accord aimed at ending months of bloodshed Thursday, agreeing that the Islamic militant group Hamas would head a new coalition government that would "respect" past peace agreements with Israel.
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Militant groups in the Gaza Strip have agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight Saturday, senior Palestinian officials said.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected demands on Wednesday by Hamas rivals for control of the breached Gaza-Egypt border and told the Islamist group to "end its coup in Gaza".
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Israel agreed to allow supplies of some fuel and medicine into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting on Tuesday, easing a blockade that sparked international protests.
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Senior officials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed on Saturday to pull their gunmen off the streets of Gaza and halt bloodshed which has killed 23 Palestinians in the last three days.
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Israel would like to sever its  remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip  after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt,  a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 -- The Israeli government agreed late Saturday to cease military operations in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a pledge by Palestinian armed groups to stop firing rockets into southern Israel, a tentative deal that leaders on both sides said could end months of violence in and...
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Israel agreed to allow some fuel, medicine and food into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at least temporarily easing a blockade that has plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests.
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Palestinian officials presented a detailed  plan to Israel for the deployment of Gaza security forces to  halt attacks on Israelis, and the militant Hamas group set its  terms on Thursday for a cease-fire.
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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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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday rejected demands by Hamas for control of the Gaza border and told the Islamist group to "end its coup in Gaza".
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Israeli and Palestinian officials are  trying to work out a deal to end Israel's biggest Gaza  offensive in four years of conflict in return for stopping  rocket fire into the Jewish state, security sources said.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said on Monday he hoped a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas would result in an agreement on a unity government to end a crippling Western embargo.
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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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Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah agree to a ceasefire deal to end fighting in Gaza, reports say.