Palestinian turf wars accelerate
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President Abbas called Saturday for early elections. Hamas says it won't participate.
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should not be rushed. He said the Palestinians must first elect a president and both sides must. begin to carry out a US-backed &quot;road map&quot; peace plan.
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Developments in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas battled on Wednesday for control of the Gaza Strip in an escalating Palestinian supremacy struggle he described as "madness".
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Security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank on Friday and firefights erupted between the rivals in Gaza, pushing the Palestinians closer to civil war.
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RAMALLAH/GAZA  - Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah opened fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank on Friday and firefights between the rival groups erupted in Gaza, raising fears of civil war.
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One version of the story said the gunfire was an assassination attempt aimed at interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Another dismissed it as a misunderstanding that erupted in gunfire simply because there were too many weapons around.
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It started as a well-planned settling of scores between rival political factions. But by the end of last week Palestinians seemed on the brink of civil war as two conflicting governments vowed to defeat each other.
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To the alarm of Washington, Hamas has seized the advantage in the increasingly vicious war between Palestinian factions
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The two factions battled today in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
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The ruling Hamas group accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
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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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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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Deadly clashes between rival gunmen may presage a fight to the finish between Fatah and Hamas
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With Yasir Arafat apparently near death, Palestinian politicians have moved rapidly to prevent a visible vacuum of power.
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all too often innocents â-ie daily. Reformers and warlords challenge Yasser Arafat as chaos and anarchy envelop the Palestinian Authority.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestine Liberation Organisation chairman, is seeking a halt to violent attacks by militant Palestinian factions as a first step towards restoring the long