Hamas wants West to end blockade
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Hamas urged the West on Friday to accept a new Palestinian unity government but leading officials from the Islamist group said they would never recognize Israel nor abide by existing peace accords.
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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Saturday dismissed President George W. Bush's upcoming visit to the Middle East as a "photo opportunity" and said he was not welcome in the region.
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Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas has urged its supporters to boycott next month&#39;s election of a new leader of the Palestinian Authority.
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The ruling Hamas militant group said on   Thursday a statement by the Quartet of Middle East peace   mediators was a sign of progress that could lead to the easing   of a Western aid embargo.
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Hamas fighters on Thursday raised the green flags of the Islamist movement over one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon The militant group Hamas is calling for unity among Palestinian leaders and says it&#39;s setting aside differences with an ailing Yasser Arafat.
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Hamas's exiled political leader urges Palestinian unity amid rising tensions and violence between Hamas and Fatah.
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Palestinian leaders urged the world on   Tuesday to accept a planned unity government they hope will   lead to the lifting of an aid embargo on the Hamas   administration.
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The agreement seemed to stop short of meeting the demands of the international community on Hamas.
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Hamas said on Sunday it received assurances from Egypt that Cairo has not reached an agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government that would exclude the Islamist group from running Gaza's border.
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Hamas agreed on Saturday to  Egyptian calls to control the flow of Palestinians through the  breached Gaza border and expects Egypt to seal remaining gaps  in the frontier wall, a Hamas official said.
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The Islamic militant group Hamas accused the United States on Thursday of trying to thwart European efforts to ease an economic blockade of a new Palestinian unity government.
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THE leader of Hamas in its Gaza Strip stronghold, Mahmud Zahar, has rejected any suggestion that the hardline group could soon call a halt to its campaign of attacks against Israel.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt started to close its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday but Palestinian militants bulldozed a new opening in a challenge to Cairo and Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run territory.