Hamas Leader Had Eluded Israel for Years
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Adnan al-Ghoul, the Hamas military leader assassinated in an Israeli missile strike Thursday, had long eluded Israeli forces through a mixture of stealth and luck.
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Israel has responded coolly to reports of secret contacts with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana has revealed there has been some contacts, but he has
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A look at the times and career of the Palestinian leader
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Sharon and Bush demonised Yasser Arafat for years and exploited the orchestrated hatred to sabotage any step towards peace. This alibi has now disappeared.
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Four months after the Hamas takeover of Gaza, the usually hidden arguments between the group's rival camps were unexpectedly laid bare
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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Israelâs chief of internal security said that Palestinian gunmen had plotted to kill Prime Minster Ehud Olmert in June, but intelligence officials had foiled the plan.
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Silvan Shalom calls the veteran Palestinian leader a terrorist who has no place in the region. Arafat has been confined to his battered headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah for more than two years.
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His trip includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Hamas welcomes unity but seems to reject prime minister&#39;s call for a cease-fire. Hamas welcomes unity but seems to reject prime minister&#39;s call for a cease-fire.
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Israel lost its first soldier in combat in nine months on Thursday in a confrontation with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group seized control over rival Palestinian factions a month ago.
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Boaz Rafaeli had read the warning that Israeli security officials issued last month against travel to Egypt&#39;s Sinai Peninsula, and he didn&#39;t give it a second thought.
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LONG before he left for medical treatment in France, Yasser Arafat had all but vanished from the streets of downtown Ramallah in the West Bank.
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A leader of the military wing of Hamas, who has long been high on Israel&#39;s wanted list, was killed last night in a missile strike in Gaza City.
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Palestinian leader's condition is obscured by rumor and intrigue.
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No serious negotiations have been held   on swapping an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza-based militants   for Palestinian prisoners, Hamas's exiled political leader   Khaled Meshaal said in remarks published on Thursday.
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A senior Hamas leader has survived an Israeli assassination attempt in the Gaza Strip, but at least five other Palestinians were killed in the explosion that tore through his home.