Israel seizes Hamas leaders, violence goes on
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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Israeli troops detain a Fatah parliamentarian, and overnight raids kill two militants in Gaza.
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Hamas Islamists seemed in command of much of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after battering forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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TULKARM, West Bank - Israeli forces detained a senior leader of Hamasâs military wing in the West Bank on Saturday during a nighttime raid on his hideout, witnesses said.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.
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Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip seized on Monday a leading member of the al Qaeda-inspired Army of Islam, the group which says it is holding a BBC correspondent hostage.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the  Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West  Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing  that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.
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Israel has killed a top leader of the Hamas militant group and another gunman in an air strike on their car in Gaza, days before a key parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza pullout plan.
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The killing of Hamas leader Izz ed-Din al-Sheikh Khalil in Damascus on Sunday marks another step in the struggle between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas organisation which has been responsible for a recent spate of suicide attacks.
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A senior Hamas leader indicated Monday that the militant group is halting attacks on Israelis while the Palestinians prepare to choose a new leader, the latest sign of change following the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers  killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the  leading Palestinian militant group.
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Israeli forces arrest 18 people in a raid on the Palestinian military headquarters in Ramallah.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least five people as Hamas seized key security buildings and fired mortar bombs and rockets at President Mahmoud Abbas's offices.
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Israeli forces detained a senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing in the West Bank today during a night-time raid on his hideout, witnesses said.
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Hamas leader's son among dead after Israeli troops launch major incursion into the Gaza Strip
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Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli troops detain a second Hamas member of the Palestinian cabinet, as strikes on Gaza kill three militants.