Hamas captures major Fatah compound in Gaza
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Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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GAZA CITY - For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after seizing power.
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An uneasy calm returns to Gaza where Hamas is in full control after attacks on key Fatah strongholds.
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Israeli forces detained two Palestinians,   who the army said were Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on   Saturday in what marked the first such arrest raid in the   territory since Israel pulled out of Gaza a year ago.
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Alan Johnston, who had been held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading Palestinian militant group.
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Israeli troops in the West Bank arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members early Thursday, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors &#151; pressing forward with an offensive against the Islamic militant group.
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There were instances of looting of Fatah symbols, but Gaza was mostly quiet today after five days of fighting in which Hamas took control of Gaza from its factional rivals.
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Hamas security forces armed with rifles and clubs beat Fatah supporters trying to hold street prayers to protest the Islamic group's rule in Gaza, witnesses said. Hamas men also assaulted at least seven Palestinian journalists and detained five.
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Israeli troops seize a nine-kilometre area in Gaza to try to stop Palestinian rocket attacks inside Israeli towns.
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Hamas fighters hunted down key loyalists of the Western-backed Palestinian president in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after the Islamists seized most of the final strongholds of the secular Fatah movement in the enclave.
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Security forces from the Hamas Islamist movement took up positions in the Gaza Strip on Friday ahead of possible rallies by the rival Fatah faction, in defiance of a ban imposed after clashes in recent weeks.
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Israeli forces detained a senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing in the West Bank today during a night-time raid on his hideout, witnesses said.
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Israeli troops on Saturday arrested a senior Hamas activist in the West Bank, the Islamic militant group said.
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Â· Prisoners driven to Fatah leader's compound Â· Hamas members excluded from amnesty
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Israel seized Hamas cabinet ministers in   the occupied West Bank on Thursday as it prepared to broaden a   military offensive into the northern Gaza Strip, pressuring   Palestinian militants to release a kidnapped soldier.
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Israeli forces arrested a senior Hamas leader today who is accused of masterminding a number of deadly attacks on Israelis, including a double-suicide bombing in a southern desert town in August that killed 16 people.