Gunmen kill Hamas leader in West Bank; Rice to visit
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QALQILYA, West Bank  - Three masked men shot and killed a Hamas leader as he left a mosque in the West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after gunmen from a rival Palestinian faction threatened to kill senior Hamas members.
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Hamas vowed to avenge the killing of a leader in its armed wing on Tuesday in Gaza in renewed violence that erupted as talks over a Palestinian unity government bogged down in disagreement over a cabinet post.
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Hamas vowed to avenge the killing of a top leader in its armed wing on Tuesday in Gaza in renewed violence that erupted as efforts to form a Palestinian unity government bogged down in disagreement.
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Israeli forces opened fire at a car full of Palestinian gunmen in this West Bank town early Saturday, killing one militant and wounding at least two others, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials.
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Israel killed a top Hamas commander in the  Gaza Strip and the Palestinian militant group vowed on Friday  to hit back hard, setting the scene for a key Israeli  parliamentary vote next week to quit the occupied territory.
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Palestinians medics wheel a wounded man to the Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike at a car used by Adnan al-Ghoul,a senior member of the Hamas militant group, killing him and another militant, late Thursday Oct. 21, 2004.
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A senior Hamas leader was killed in anIsraeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City on Thursday night,Palestinian security sources reported.
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GAZA CITY: Israel killed a military leader of the radical Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, risking a new flare-up in violence on Friday just days ahead of a critical parliamentary vote on the evacuation of the Palestinian territory.
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A senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car as it drove through a Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, witnesses said.
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Israeli troops killed a Hamas militant in a clash in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Hamas sources said.
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JERUSALEM, May 27 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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An Israeli air strike killed at least two  Hamas gunmen in Gaza City Monday, a day after a top commander  of the Palestinian militant group was killed in a similar  attack, military officials and witnesses said.
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JENIN, West Bank  - A Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces near the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night was a militant, both sides said.
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Israel killed two Hamas militants in an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and the Islamist group's leader said the conflict may be heading towards "an explosion".
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Israeli troops today killed two Palestinian Hamas gunmen in Gaza, wounding three others in an upsurge of violence days before the US president, George Bush, visits Israel.
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A senior Hamas leader survived an Israeli  assassination attempt on Wednesday but at least five other  Palestinians were killed in the night-time explosion that tore  through his Gaza home.
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Israeli troops killed a Hamas gunman during a clash near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Friday, the Palestinian Islamist group and medical workers said.