Hamas pressure on Fatah mounts in Gaza battles
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Hamas Islamist fighters and forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas battled on Wednesday for control of the Gaza Strip in an escalating Palestinian supremacy struggle he described as "madness".
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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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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least five people as Hamas seized key security buildings and fired mortar bombs and rockets at President Mahmoud Abbas's offices.
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Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where at least six fighters were killed, reviving fears of civil war.
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Gunbattles raged in Gaza on Saturday as senior officials from the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas met to try to curb an intensifying power struggle which has killed 23 people in three days.
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At least eight people are killed as fighting between Hamas and Fatah rages in Gaza, scuppering a three-day truce.
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Hamas fighters bombarded a major security compound belonging to the rival Fatah group in Gaza City on Thursday as the Islamist movement appeared to tighten its grip in fierce factional fighting.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Thousands of angry civil servants turned up the pressure on the beleaguered Hamas government yesterday, marching to demand payment of overdue wages and winning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's blessing for a major strike next week.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and Fatah set the Islamic University ablaze.
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Deadly clashes between rival gunmen may presage a fight to the finish between Fatah and Hamas
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Hamas fighters launched a fierce offensive on Gaza City Wednesday, firing mortars and rockets at Fatah's main security bases and the president's compound as the Islamic group appeared close to taking control of the entire Gaza Strip.
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The Palestinian uprising marked its fourth anniversary with signs that the violent Hamas group is preparing a formidable political challenge to Yasser Arafat, despite a series of devastating blows from Israel.
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The attack underlines the potential of the violent Hamas-Fatah power struggle to spill over into Israel.
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Gun battles between Hamas and Fatah erupt in Gaza after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's call for  early polls.
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JERUSALEM -- Scattered clashes were reported yesterday around the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a day after fierce fighting between the ruling Hamas movement and rivals in the formerly dominant Fatah party.
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Hamas security forces armed with rifles and clubs beat Fatah supporters trying to hold street prayers to protest the Islamic group's rule in Gaza, witnesses said. Hamas men also assaulted at least seven Palestinian journalists and detained five.
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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.