Gaza rivals pull back, free some hostages
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Gunmen began withdrawing from Gaza's streets, some hostages were released and many shops reopened on Sunday as a shaky ceasefire appeared to be taking hold in factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, residents said.
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Israel frees a large group of Palestinian prisoners in a move intended to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas.
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Senior officials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed on Saturday to pull their gunmen off the streets of Gaza but there was no immediate end to fighting that has killed 24 Palestinians in the last three days.
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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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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, the most hopeful sign yet that he would soon walk free after 114 days of captivity.
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Hamas policemen and forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas withdrew from Gaza's streets on Wednesday as a fresh ceasefire aimed at halting a slide to civil war appeared to be holding.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a "serious release" of thousands of security detainees.
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Forces loyal to Hamas appeared to consolidate their hold on northern Gaza and much of Gaza City, with 12 people wounded in clashes with Fatah.
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After a recent surge of violence in and around the Gaza Strip, Israel and the Palestinians moved gingerly today toward reinstituting an often-broken cease-fire.
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An armed group of ex-military nationalists released their hostages and surrendered on Tuesday, four days after seizing a police station and part of a Peruvian town to demand the president's resignation.
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Palestinian gunmen freed a top security  official on Thursday hours after abducting him in the Gaza  Strip in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule  amid a wave of unrest, witnesses said.
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Hamas withdrew a controversial private militia from the streets of the Gaza Strip on Friday, saying it wanted to avoid further infighting with the rival Fatah movement.
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BEIRUT -- In the Gaza Strip, Islamists aided by Iran finish off forces loyal to Washington's ally, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and looters ransacked the blood spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday, rejoicing at the rout of their well-armed, secular rivals from the president's Fatah faction.
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Hamas has pledged in the wake of its bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip to work free BBC reporter Alan Johnston, snatched by gunmen more than three months ago in the volatile territory.
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Hamas gunmen on Tuesday took up positions around the stronghold of the shadowy group holding kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston, stepping up the pressure to secure the correspondent's release.
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The move suggests the sides were seeking to pull back from a potential showdown in the Gaza Strip, at least for now.