Palestinian factional fighting may spread
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal meet for an emergency summit in Mecca Tuesday.
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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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Factional fighting echoed through the streets of Gaza City Friday as militia members of the ruling Palestinian Hamas party battled rivals from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
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Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 wounded in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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JERUSALEM -- The Fatah movement's yellow flags flew alongside Hamas's green ones yesterday in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians expressed cautious hope that a new power-sharing agreement between the rival factions could bring an end, or at least a pause, to weeks of internal violence.
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Sunday&#39;s violent confrontation between militants and bodyguards protecting the interim Palestinian leader was the latest sign of the challenges ahead for Palestinians
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Attacks on Pakistan's Shiites echo rising sectarian strife in the Mideast.
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Palestinian society is splintered along deep political, geographic and ideological lines that will be exacerbated by the death of Arafat.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions is dividing their turf and dashing statehood hopes.
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Conflicting ideologies and internal divisions came to the forefront across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Palestinian militants angry over Yasser Arafat&#39;s death have attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip in what they said signalled the start of a new round of clashes against Israel.
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CAIRO -- Arab countries are eyeing the chaos in Gaza with alarm, fearing that the Palestinian fighting could spread to the West Bank and further destabilize the region. The Arab League chief called yesterday for a cease-fire, warning of disaster otherwise.
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Mediation efforts are under way to defuse rising tension between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.
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A militant group linked to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah faction announced Saturday it is ready to stop violence if Israel halts military operations, and Israeli officials indicated that they are considering the idea.
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Though clashes in the town of Khan Younis were being portrayed in the Palestinian news media as a feud between families, they also took on a factional hue.
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Factional violence raged in Gaza today between the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, despite a new cease-fire that was supposed to have come into effect at 11 a.m.
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Palestinians say their own infighting is making it too easy for Israel to argue that nothing needs to be done now to promote a Palestinian state.