Egypt says Hamas takeover of Gaza was a coup
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The bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a "coup against legitimacy," 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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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejigged his government on Friday at the end of a month-long state of emergency declared when Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Hamas-led Palestinian government and declared a state of emergency as the Islamist group's gunmen routed his last forces in Gaza and seized effective control.
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Egypt is doing too little to stop  arms smuggling into Gaza, which emboldens the militant group  Hamas and weakens rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,  Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said on  Thursday.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says at least 73 members have been arrested in overnight raids.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was  quoted on Saturday as saying he was convinced there would be an  independent Palestinian state within the next four years.
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Hamas forces have seized the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egyptian border, further establishing its control of the Palestinian territory, Palestinian security sources told CNN today. As many as 70 Palestinians have been killed since the Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence escalated four days ago.
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Hamas has pledged in the wake of its bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip to work free BBC reporter Alan Johnston, snatched by gunmen more than three months ago in the volatile territory.
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Hamas said Monday it had made arrests in Gaza over the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by extremists in the territory for 112 days.
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The Hamas police in Gaza arrested an aide to the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad.
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Hamas screened purported confessions on Saturday that it said proved Palestinian rivals had plotted to kill the Islamists' leader in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas security men beat protesters, hurled stun grenades and fired in the air to disperse open-air prayers the rival Fatah faction held in the Gaza Strip on Friday in defiance of the territory's Islamist rulers.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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A few days ago, Hamas fighters stormed Fatah strongholds in Gaza that were allied with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and effectively took control of one of the two pillars of the evolving Palestinian state. Fatah groups struck back in the West Bank, the other Palestinian pillar, and...
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Releases aimed at bolstering support for Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas coup in Gaza Strip.
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Masked Hamas gunmen took control of the Gaza Strip and the Fatah president declared a state of emergency and plans for elections.
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Hamas has pledged in the wake of its bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip to work to free BBC reporter Alan Johnston, snatched by gunmen more than three months ago in the volatile territory.