Palestinian truce holds despite sporadic attacks
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A ceasefire between the governing Hamas movement and the once-dominant Fatah faction largely held in the Gaza Strip for a second day despite sporadic incidents of violence on Wednesday.
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Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said Monday.
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Palestinian militants fired several rockets at Israel from Gaza on Sunday just hours after a ceasefire aimed at ending five months of bloodshed in the impoverished coastal strip took effect.
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* Israel seals off West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent violence. Militant group Hamas vows to keep up attacks. * Israeli soldiers kill four Palestinians.
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Israelis and Palestinians threatened Sunday to scrap a truce that has largely ended five months of Gaza violence, with Palestinian militants insisting it must also apply to the West Bank and Israeli leaders complaining that Gaza rocket squads are still active.
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Palestinian gunmen rained mortar and  rocket fire into Israeli settlements in Gaza on Thursday  despite new President Mahmoud Abbas's formal truce declaration  at a summit that revived Middle East peace hopes.
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Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agree a ceasefire, officials say, but fighting rages on in Gaza.
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Israeli missile strikes hit a succession of militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing two, while Hamas fired more rockets toward Israel. Palestinian factions met to discuss a possible truce with Israel.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they are not bound by the Palestinian truce agreed with Israel in Egypt.
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A ceasefire began in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, heralding a possible end to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and a halt to a crushing Israeli military offensive.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 2 -- At least 18 Palestinians, including two children, were killed in heavy factional fighting across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, leaving a truce reached this week in ashes.
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A cease-fire aimed at halting months of deadly internal Palestinian violence held on its first day, but underlying tensions cast doubt on the future of the stand-down.
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Hamas promised on Saturday to maintain a de facto truce and, in a major policy change, not to retaliate immediately for any Israeli violence while it weighs Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's ceasefire with Israel.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet today with militant leaders to push them to honor a days-old cease-fire marred by mortar and rocket attacks on Israeli targets, according to an aide.
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Real fighting and gun battles erupted Wednesday and mounted on Thursday between Palestinian militants groups and the Israeli army in the northern area of the Gaza Strip without seeing an end to it.
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GAZA CITY -- Gaza's warring factions began to hold their fire yesterday as a truce took effect across the volatile territory and brought hopes for an end to the infighting that has left 36 people dead in five days.
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Palestinian militants in Gaza fired three rockets at Israel early Sunday, despite reports that they had agreed to halt such attacks.