Hamas on offensive as Palestinians battle in Gaza
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Hamas Islamist gunmen pressed on with their Gaza offensive on Wednesday, killing eight fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in a Palestinian supremacy struggle escalating steadily into civil war.
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Palestinians battled across Gaza on Tuesday in what looked ever more like civil war as the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas rounded on those of the Islamist prime minister and their unity government headed for collapse.
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Gun battles erupted in the Gaza Strip on Thursday between Hamas gunmen and security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and at least six people were wounded in the violence that tested a 3-day-old ceasefire.
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JERUSALEM -- Leaders of the Hamas and Fatah parties began operating parallel Palestinian governments yesterday after days of intense factional fighting that have sharply defined the political and geographic divisions undermining the Palestinian drive for statehood.
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Islamist groups are vying for influence in Gaza in a race to fill the security vacuum created by fighting between Fatah and Hamas.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 15 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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Israeli forces and Palestinian militants have been involved in hours of clashes in the Gaza Strip. The fighting erupted after an Israeli tank was hit by a bomb planted by the Hamas militant group.
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Palestinian militants resumed rocket and  mortar fire at Jewish settlements in Gaza on Tuesday, throwing  down the gauntlet to newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud  Abbas and his call for calm to talk peace with Israel.
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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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Hamas fighters launched a fierce offensive on Gaza City Wednesday, firing mortars and rockets at Fatah's main security bases and the president's compound as the Islamic group appeared close to taking control of the entire Gaza Strip.
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Deadly clashes erupted Monday between rival factions in the Gaza Strip for the first time in more than a month, despite a conciliatory speech toward Hamas by Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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At least eight people are killed as fighting between Hamas and Fatah rages in Gaza, scuppering a three-day truce.
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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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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 11 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and Fatah set the Islamic University ablaze.
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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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Israeli tanks and warplanes attacked a series of targets throughout the Gaza Strip in some of the heaviest fighting in recent months.
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In some of the heaviest fighting since the elections in January, Hamas and Fatah battled in Gaza today, as Hamas forces tried to disrupt Fatah-organized protests over unpaid government salaries.