In Gaza, the Rule by the Gun Draws Many Competitors
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Fighting between Fatah and Hamas is part of a power struggle in the one Palestinian area that Israel has largely abandoned.
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GAZA CITY, June 19 -- At the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a man with a three-day growth of beard and bluejeans raised his fist and let out a hoarse scream amid the stench and desperation of the dozens of men, women and children who have been gathered here for days, unable to go...
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The leading contender to replace Yasser Arafat was caught in a chaotic gun battle in the Gaza Strip yesterday, foreshadowing the dangers ahead as Palestinian officials urgently
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a major gun battle on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip near the Karni commercial crossing, the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in two weeks.
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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GAZA CITY -- The batteries are the size of a button on a man's shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City.
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JERUSALEM -- Gunmen of rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sharply escalated their fight for supremacy yesterday, with Hamas taking over much of the northern Gaza Strip in what is beginning to look increasingly like a civil war.
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Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 40 wounded in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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MORAG SETTLEMENT, Gaza Strip : Three Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians were killed during intense gunbattles after a group of militants managed to break into a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas has promised to protect press freedoms in the Gaza Strip, but its police force has been intimidating journalists.
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Palestinians fight back as security forces try to stop exodus from Gaza through Rafah wall.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Militants burst into a mourning tent for Yasser Arafat on Sunday, firing from their assault rifles for several minutes and forcing security guards to hustle away the Palestinian leader&#39;s temporary successor, Mahmoud Abbas.
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GAZA CITY, June 19 -- At the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a man with a three-day growth of beard and bluejeans raised his fist and let out a hoarse scream amid the stench and desperation of the dozens of men, women and children who have been gathered here for days, unable to g...
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Gunbattles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least three people and reviving fears the strip could slip into civil war.
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Gun battles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in Gaza City on Tuesday, killing at least three people and reviving fears the strip was sliding into civil war.
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The ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza has so far claimed more than 70 Palestinian lives and wounded more than 250 in some of the bloodiest conflict since the start of the present intifada.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s massacre in the Gaza Strip is nominated for a dragging continuous phase. The reason is not because the short-range Al-Qassam rockets are thumping targets inside the Hebrew State and impeding