Hospitals become battleground in Gaza
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With gunmen using their rooftops as sniper positions and doctors and nurses afraid to come to work, Gaza's hospitals are finding themselves on the front lines of the Palestinians' increasingly bloody internal fight.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 11 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and Fatah set the Islamic University ablaze.
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Palestinian medics and police officers carry a Palestinian police officer, seriously wounded in an Israeli air force missile attack, at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Khan Younis, late Sunday Oct. 24, 2004.
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At least 12 people were wounded in continuing clashes between Palestinian factions, residents and doctors said.
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Palestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister's office during factional fighting on Monday that killed 10 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition.
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JERUSALEM -- Gunmen of rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sharply escalated their fight for supremacy yesterday, with Hamas taking over much of the northern Gaza Strip in what is beginning to look increasingly like a civil war.
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In the first of three exclusive films for Guardian Unlimited, Clancy Chassay finds hospitals deserted as doctors and nurses are forced to take sides in Gaza's political infighting.
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A fragile cease-fire between Palestinian factions in Gaza teetered on the edge of collapse Tuesday after Hamas and pro-Fatah forces battled inside a Gaza City hospital and near the Palestinian presidential compound.
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Jerusalem - As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pressed ahead this week with his Gaza Strip evacuation plan, he grappled with a new obstacle to implementing the withdrawal: the specter of violent clashes mushrooming into a civil war.
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Palestinian security patrols began Sunday in Gaza after a meeting between officials aiming to keep peace and national unity while Yasser Arafat is in a hospital.
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The government is launching a proactive fight for hospitals to tackle MRSA and other infections.
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a two-and-a-half-hour long 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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PARIS -- As he lay in a French military hospital fighting for his life early today, Yasser Arafat was at the center of a struggle over who would replace him as Palestinian leader and a controversy over his longtime desire to be buried in Jerusalem.
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Israeli opposition to the prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan raises safety concerns.
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GAZA CITY -- Hamas militiamen's efforts to break up antigovernment protests sparked gun battles across the Gaza Strip yesterday that killed eight people in the worst internal Palestinian violence since Hamas took power.
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Palestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister's office during factional fighting on Monday that killed 9 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition.
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At least three Palestinians were killed and up to 35 wounded in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in clashes between ruling Hamas Islamists and other armed Palestinian groups, hospital officials said.