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 forces have detained a senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing in the West Bank on during a night-time raid on his hideout, witnesses say.
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Israeli troops detain a second Hamas member of the Palestinian cabinet, as strikes on Gaza kill three militants.
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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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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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Masked Hamas gunmen took control of the Gaza Strip and the Fatah president declared a state of emergency and plans for elections.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.
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Israeli military forces recently launched incursions into the West Bank and Gaza, killing several terrorists and arresting dozens others.
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Israeli troops in the West Bank arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members Thursday, the army said, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors.
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Israel threatened to use force to topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders on Monday following a surge of cross-border rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group.
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Israel on Tuesday captured a top Hamas militant accused of ordering and planning suicide bombings that killed 55 Israelis, the military said.
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The Israeli army announced it has arrested a Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Hebron, claiming he was planning for bomb attacks against Israelis.
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Israeli forces concluded a four-day operation in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, capturing a senior Hamas commander who Israeli military officials said was the leader of a cell that was preparing a suicide bombing in Israel during the religious holiday.
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Israeli forces detained two Palestinians,   who the army said were Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on   Saturday in what marked the first such arrest raid in the   territory since Israel pulled out of Gaza a year ago.
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Islamist Hamas fighters hunted down key loyalists of the Western-backed Palestinian president in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after seizing most of the final strongholds of his secular Fatah movement in the enclave.
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Israeli forces carry out an incursion into the Gaza Strip, seizing more than 80 Palestinians and killing four.
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A military leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas who was at the top of Israelâs most wanted list, has been killed in an air strike on Gaza City.