Gaza fighting escalates but truce efforts renewed
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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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GAZA CITY -- Ignoring a truce and Arab mediation offers, Hamas and Fatah fighters exchanged gunfire in upscale beachfront neighborhoods yesterday, and Hamas gunmen threatened to attack high-rise buildings unless residents force rival snipers off their rooftops.
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a major gun battle on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip near the Karni commercial crossing, the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in two weeks.
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Renewed efforts to narrow differences ahead of US-sponsored conference, despite fierce Gaza clashes.
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a lengthy gun battle on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip near the strategic Karni commercial crossing, the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in two weeks.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 -- Continued fighting between rival Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least six people and wounded about 20, several of them children.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, saying troops will remain until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted. Israeli officials said the offensive &#151; in which 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed &#151; will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal.
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Gun battles erupted in the Gaza Strip on Thursday between Hamas gunmen and security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and at least six people were wounded in the violence that tested a 3-day-old ceasefire.
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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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Israeli forces pressed ahead yesterday with one of the biggest offensives in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting, killing 10 Palestinians in dawn-to-dusk gunbattles and airstrikes, according to officials from both sides.
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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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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - More troops poured into the Gaza Strip on Saturday as Israel expanded its offensive to counter Palestinian rocket fire, one of the largest incursions in four years of fighting. Seven Palestinians were killed in new clashes, including four who cut through Gaza's border fence...
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 15--Rival Palestinian factions exchanged gunfire Friday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, leaving more than 30 people wounded, as leaders from both parties warned of a violent escalation that could push the territories toward a wider civil conflict.
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Palestinian militants fired more rockets  and mortars into Jewish settlements in Gaza on Tuesday, hours  before new President Mahmoud Abbas was due in the area to urge  a cease-fire he hopes could revive peacemaking with Israel.
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Palestinians battled on across the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday and eight more factional fighters were killed, raising the death toll to 55 in four days of the fiercest internal fighting in months, hospital officials said.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces pressed ahead yesterday with one of the biggest offensives in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting, killing 10 Palestinian militants in dawn-to-dusk gun battles and airstrikes, according to officials from both sides.
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Gunmen from Fatah and Hamas exchanged gunfire in Gaza City on Monday, witnesses said, further straining a shaky cease-fire between the rival Palestinian movements.