Feud 'hurting Palestinian rights'
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Fighting between Hamas and Fatah is fuelling human rights abuses, Amnesty International says in a report.
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Early Palestinian elections will lead to unrest, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday after accusing President Mahmoud Abbas of trying to force his Hamas movement out of all government positions.
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For all the questions raised by last weekâs death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing as the conflict that consumed his life.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 1 (IPS) - Trade between the European Union and Israel should  be halted in protest at human rights violations in the  Palestinian territories, a United Nations conference has heard.
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Foreign envoys to the Palestinian Authority are being asked not to &quot;embrace&quot; Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Qureia or make statements that could provide fodder for the pair&#39;s opponents.
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Fighting between Fatah and Hamas is part of a power struggle in the one Palestinian area that Israel has largely abandoned.
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Rival Palestinian factions are putting on a show of unity today in the Gaza Strip, as concern mounts over Yasser Arafat. Representatives of 13 Palestinian factions, including the two Islamic militant groups
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More than a dozen people were injured Friday when fighting broke out in the West Bank city of Ramallah amid growing tensions between rival Palestinian factions.
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There is a brewing dispute in Israel over British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s proposal for an international peace conference on the Middle East in January or February after the Palestinian elections, to grant the new Palestinian Authority leadership
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The Western-backed Palestinian government said clashes on Friday between its supporters and Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip marked the start of an Intifada against the Islamists ruling the territory.
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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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Mediation efforts are under way to defuse rising tension between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.
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An assassination and continued unrest focus scrutiny on the country's Palestinian refugees
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Open conflict erupted yesterday between Yasser Arafat's personal inner circle and his would-be political heirs over who should have access to the gravely ill Palestinian leader and who will control the financial and political power he wielded for decades.
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The two most powerful players in the violent confrontation over the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants offered sharply differing visions Monday on how to resolve the crisis.
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Hamas, the governing Palestinian faction, accused its rival Fatah today of trying to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, a charge that ratcheted up tensions between two groups, which clashed in the streets again today.
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An Israeli rights group alleged in a report released Monday that Israeli police fail to follow through on the vast majority of Palestinian complaints of violence by Jewish settlers in the West Bank.