Gaza clashes likened to Intifada
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The Western-backed Palestinian government said clashes on Friday between its supporters and Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip marked the start of an Intifada against the Islamists ruling the territory.
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Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas traded gunfire with Hamas policemen in Gaza on Tuesday as tensions soared after the killing of three young sons of one of Abbas's top intelligence officials.
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Six Palestinians were killed in clashes between Hamas and Fatah in some of their fiercest battles since the elections in January.
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Hamas battled to wrest control of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday from beleaguered Fatah forces in the latest and most brutal round of violence. Each side's supporters have hurled rivals from high-rise buildings, gunmen have roamed hospital wards looking to finish off wounded enemies and ordinary people have huddled at home, not daring to walk the streets.
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JERUSALEM, June 12 -- Fatah and Hamas gunmen resumed intense street fighting Monday and Tuesday in the Gaza Strip after Egyptian efforts to mediate a new cease-fire failed to draw scores of masked gunmen off the streets.
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Seven Palestinians were killed in Gaza during fighting between rival armed factions.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 11 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and Fatah set the Islamic University ablaze.
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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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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas says two of its fighters died in clashes with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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Israeli forces clash with Palestinian gunmen during an overnight incursion into the Gaza Strip.
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Heavily armed Hamas militiamen's efforts to break up anti-government protests on Sunday sparked gunbattles across the Gaza Strip that killed eight people in the worst internal Palestinian violence since Hamas took power.
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Three Palestinians die in the Gaza Strip in fresh clashes between rival Hamas and Fatah factions.
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Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where at least six fighters were killed, reviving fears of civil war.
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA  - Fighting erupted in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday and a Hamas gunman was killed, the first fatality in such clashes since the Islamist movement agreed with its Fatah rivals to form a unity government a month ago.
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Palestinian militants angry over Yasser  Arafat's death attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip  on Thursday in what they said signaled the start of a new round  of clashes against Israel.
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GAZA CITY, Dec. 17-- Fighting between the ruling Hamas movement and its Fatah rivals escalated Sunday, with an attack launched on the foreign minister's convoy followed by shots fired at the Palestinian president's Gaza residence in apparent retaliation, witnesses said.