Israel seizes Hamas leaders, violence goes on
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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The ruling Hamas faction deployed armed militants in key parts of the Gaza Strip on Friday, one day after it accused rival Fatah forces of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas sources said.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the Hamas  group Wednesday, arresting a West Bank leader held responsible  for a twin suicide bus bombing that killed 16 and killing a  militant in a Gaza air strike.
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Israeli troops arrest a second Hamas member of the Palestinian cabinet, as air strikes continue on Gaza.
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Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group.
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Israel's claim to have killed a Hamas leader in the Syrian capital on Sunday marked an escalation in the Jewish state's war against the violent group, embarrassed Syrian leaders and turned up pressure on Damascus to expel Palestinian militants.
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Israel killed two Hamas militants in an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and the Islamist group's leader said the conflict may be heading towards "an explosion".
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading Palestinian militant group.
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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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Israel killed a top leader of the Hamas  militant group and another gunman in an airstrike on their car  on Thursday in Gaza, days before a key parliamentary vote on  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.
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A senior Hamas leader indicated today that the militant group is halting attacks on Israelis while the Palestinians prepare to choose a new leader, the latest sign of change following the death of Yasser Arafat.
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In a statement, the Israeli army described those arrested as âsenior members of the Hamas terror organization.â
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IDF troops on Wednesday arrested Imad Kawasmeh, commander of Hamas&#39; military wing in Hebron, and the man responsible for sending two suicide bombers to Beersheba two months ago.
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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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Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip seized on Monday a leading member of the al Qaeda-inspired Army of Islam, the group which says it is holding a BBC correspondent hostage.
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Hamas leader's son among dead after Israeli troops launch major incursion into the Gaza Strip
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Israeli troops kill three men from the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, in a raid into the Gaza Strip.