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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Gunmen of rival factions Hamas and Fatah sharply escalated their fight for supremacy in what is beginning to look increasingly like a civil war.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas officials yesterday accused the Fatah party of trying to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in a burst of shooting a night earlier, as fresh clashes injured more than 30 people in the West Bank and raised worries of a slide toward wider violence.
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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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Gun battles between Hamas and Fatah erupt in Gaza after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's call for  early polls.
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Hamas Islamist fighters appeared in command of much of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after battering forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas militants cement domination over Gaza but appear to make conciliatory overtures to Fatah.
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The two factions battled today in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 17 â After a day of rallies and violent clashes in Gaza between supporters of Hamas and Fatah, with both sides trying to send messages of strength following a presidential order for early elections, leaders called for calm this evening.
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Security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank on Friday and firefights erupted between the rivals in Gaza, pushing the Palestinians closer to civil war.
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A top Hamas leader accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
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Rival Palestinian factions fought their most intense battles in weeks on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, raising the weekend toll to five dead and 45 wounded.
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A Palestinian militant group linked to the Fatah faction  threatens to kill leaders of political rival Hamas.
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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 on the territory in fierce factional fighting.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The militant Islamic group  Hamas made significant inroads against the mainstream Fatah  movement in Palestinian municipal elections held last week in  the West Bank, official results showed Sunday.
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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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Sporadic gun battles continue in Gaza between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, despite a renewed truce.