Abbas accuses Hamas of coup plot
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accuses Hamas of trying to set up its own state in Gaza.
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The move is meant to help Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against Hamas.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and battles between the two factions erupted in Gaza on Friday, prompting a Hamas leader to accuse Abbas of starting a war.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas urged  militant groups on Tuesday to help with an orderly succession  to Yasser Arafat, as Israel talked of possible coordination  with Palestinians on its Gaza pullout plan.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lashed out at the Islamic militants of Hamas yesterday, accusing them of trying to build an "empire of darkness" in the Gaza Strip and pledging he would not negotiate with the "murderous terrorists."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for a political solution to resolve a Palestinian crisis but made clear he had the right to sack the Hamas government.
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Hamas accused the Palestinian leadership on Sunday of sabotaging the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston who has been held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Islamic militants for 104 days.
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The bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas was  a &quot;coup against legitimacy,&quot; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak  said on Saturday, two days before he hosts a regional summit  seen as an attempt to isolate the Islamist group.
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A Hamas leader dismissed Palestinian Authority presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas&#39;s call for an end to the armed Palestinian uprising, Haaretz reported.
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Islamist Hamas fighters hunted down key loyalists of the Western-backed Palestinian president in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after seizing most of the final strongholds of his secular Fatah movement in the enclave.
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An apparent attempt to assassinate Gaza&#039;s intelligence chief with a bomb planted at his headquarters Saturday heightened tensions between President Mahmoud Abbas&#039; Fatah faction and the Islamic militant group Hamas.
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President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and gun battles between the two Palestinian factions erupted in Gaza on Friday, prompting a Hamas leader to accuse Abbas of starting a war.
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The ruling Hamas accused a key ally of President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday of trying to assassinate the prime minister, inflaming tensions between rival Palestinian factions to their highest point in a decade as fighting spread to the West Bank.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel&#039;s offensive in Gaza was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the Hamas-led government, but Palestinian leaders were working hard to end the standoff.
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The Palestinian leadership was further split Sunday as President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a temporary cabinet for his emergency government, a move described by a Hamas official as "illegal" and outside Abbas' authority.
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GAZA CITY: Palestinians let rip at Yasser Arafat&#39;s wife Suha yesterday after she alleged his top lieutenants were plotting a deathbed coup, accusing her of abandoning the nationalist struggle for the boutiques of Paris.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he will order early parliamentary and presidential elections in response to what he called the "coup" by Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.