Israel fights Fatah militants in West Bank city
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NABLUS, West Bank  - An Israeli raid into a West Bank city dominated by Fatah gunmen drew accusations from Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that Israel was trying to undermine his new government shorn of Hamas Islamists.
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Over coffee, Fatah gunmen casually bragged about their latest exploit &#151; kidnapping a Hamas city council member from a crowded downtown bank. Their M16s leaning against a sofa where the hostage sat just days earlier, the men are untouchable &#151; the vanguard of Fatah's fight against Hamas in the West Bank.
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GAZA CITY -- Israeli forces killed 11 militants yesterday in one of the deadliest days of combat since Hamas wrested control of Gaza last month. Israel called in aircraft, tanks, and bulldozers to press its campaign against Gaza rocket squads, while Islamic militants laid mines and fired mortars at soldiers at the main Gaza-Israel passage.
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Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants travelling in a vehicle near the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday. Palestinian security sources said an Israeli undercover unit fired at a jeep carrying four
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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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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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NABLUS, West Bank - Five Palestinian fugitives, including a militant leader, were killed on Wednesday during a fierce gun battle with Israeli soldiers in this West Bank city, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
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An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian militants in the West Bank town of Jenin as they traveled in a car they had received just a short time earlier, according to Palestinian witnesses and the Israeli military.
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Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Hamas militants, and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister in the West Bank as Gaza militants fired more rockets into Israel.
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expected to be a test of strength between the dominant Fatah movement and Islamists sworn to destroying Israel. the elections. A similar poll in the Gaza Strip was delayed because violence prevented registration.
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Palestinian militants angry over Yasser Arafat&#39;s death have attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip in what they said signalled the start of a new round of clashes against Israel.
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Dozens of Israeli jeeps and armored vehicles raided the West Bank city of Nablus Sunday and placed tens of thousands of Palestinians under curfew.
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The Israeli army killed a Palestinian and arrested 17 militants Monday in raids across the West Bank, despite a decision by the military to scale back such operations in order to bolster a shaky truce with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian witnesses say at least five Palestinians were killed during a gubattle with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday.
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Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinian militants in the West Bank's most populace town, Nablus.
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JENIN, West Bank  - Fatah gunmen shot at the convoy of a minister from the rival Hamas movement in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the first factional violence since Palestinian unity talks began a month ago.
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Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian militants near the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Palestinian security sources said.