Hamas hails Gaza victory after seizing base
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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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Strikes against rocket launch sites are first since Hamas took control last week.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli troops seized a top Hamas militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas's top leader in the  West Bank was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after  completing a two-year sentence, potentially bolstering the  militant Palestinian group's standing in the area.
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Hamas militants defeated the mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah in nine of 26 local elections, results showed on Sunday, in a foretaste of challenges confronting emerging moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and looters ransacked the blood spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday, rejoicing at the rout of their well-armed, secular rivals from the president's Fatah faction.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon was savouring a dramatic victory for his Gaza pullout plan on Wednesday after MPs gave the green light to the first ever evacuation of occupied Palestinian territory.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejigged his government on Friday at the end of a month-long state of emergency declared when Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas militants cement domination over Gaza but appear to make conciliatory overtures to Fatah.
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Israeli forces concluded a four-day operation in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, capturing a senior Hamas commander who Israeli military officials said was the leader of a cell that was preparing a suicide bombing in Israel during the religious holiday.
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Fatah and Hamas members abducted by gunmen were freed late on Monday as part of deal between the two side, Fatah and Hamas sources said.
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The Hamas party further consolidated its control of northern Gaza today in Palestinian factional battles.
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Hamas Islamist fighters appeared in command of much of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after battering forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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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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JERUSALEM, June 15 -- Victorious Hamas gunmen rounded up senior military leaders of the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip early Friday, then announced a general amnesty in a sign the Islamic movement is seeking to reconcile with its secular rivals after five days of fierce fighting.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas Islamic militants  scored significant successes in Palestinian municipal  elections, the first contested by the group sworn to Israel's  destruction, initial results showed on Friday.