Abbas's government dismantling militant groups: minister
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The top Palestinian security official said on Saturday his government was dismantling militant groups, including those connected to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday authorized a review of all private organizations in Palestinian areas, signaling that he may shut down Hamas-affiliated groups to counter the Islamic movement after it took over the Gaza Strip.
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PLO leader Mahmud Abbas is due to hold separate meetings with representatives from the Palestinian security services and 13 main factions, officials said.
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As Islamist gunmen mopped up his routed forces in Gaza, Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Palestinian government on Thursday and declared a state of emergency after six days of bloody faction fighting.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the acting Palestinian leader, called on his people to drop their weapons in the struggle for a state. His stance marks a clear change of strategy for peace with Israel after the death of Yasser Arafat last month.
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Armed militants forced the closure of Palestinian parliament buildings in the West Bank town of Jenin.
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The moderate Palestinian government has ordered the closure of more than 100 institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Monday, in an apparent crackdown against the Islamic Hamas.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel&#039;s offensive in Gaza was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the Hamas-led government, but Palestinian leaders were working hard to end the standoff.
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Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings. Gunmen fired shots at the house of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
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The Hamas-led government withdrew a controversial 3,000-member private militia from the streets of Gaza on Friday, saying it wanted to reduce friction with the rival Fatah movement.
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Palestinian officials disbanded a Gaza security force feared by civilians and under fire by human rights groups, taking one of the first concrete steps toward security
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The Palestinian Authority decides to disband a security unit accused of human rights abuses in Gaza.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says agreement on the policies of a unity government with Hamas has been struck.
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Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya resigns as part of a new deal to set up a national unity government.
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The government goes after Palestinian Islamists in Tripoli
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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Cabinet ministers in the Hamas-led Palestinian government resigned Thursday, a step toward forming a unity government with Palestinian President Mamoud Abbas' Fatah party.