Hamas captures major Fatah compound in Gaza
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Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas said Monday it had made arrests in Gaza over the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by extremists in the territory for 112 days.
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GAZA CITY -- The secular Palestinian party Fatah, routed in the Gaza Strip by rival Hamas forces nearly three months ago, has begun to use political protest and reassemble its armed wing in order to resist the Islamic movement's tightening hold here.
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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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Over coffee, Fatah gunmen casually bragged about their latest exploit &#151; kidnapping a Hamas city council member from a crowded downtown bank. Their M16s leaning against a sofa where the hostage sat just days earlier, the men are untouchable &#151; the vanguard of Fatah's fight against Hamas in the West Bank.
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Hamas forces on Sunday said they discovered a bomb next the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza City and accused the rival Fatah movement of planting the device.
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Security forces from the Hamas Islamist movement took up positions in the Gaza Strip on Friday ahead of possible rallies by the rival Fatah faction, in defiance of a ban imposed after clashes in recent weeks.
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Israel says its largest incursion in the Gaza Strip during four years of fighting is a victory. But Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, isn&#39;t admitting defeat.
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Forces loyal to Hamas appeared to consolidate their hold on northern Gaza and much of Gaza City, with 12 people wounded in clashes with Fatah.
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Israel seized Hamas cabinet ministers in   the occupied West Bank on Thursday as it prepared to broaden a   military offensive into the northern Gaza Strip, pressuring   Palestinian militants to release a kidnapped soldier.
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A senior adviser in the Palestinian government was abducted by unknown gunmen in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, officials in President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction said.
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The Hamas military takeover was partly fueled by weapons moved through tunnels below the town of Rafah.
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A senior advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government was abducted by unknown gunmen in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, Abbas's Fatah faction said.
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Gunmen burst into the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza early Friday and kidnapped him, the man's family said, in the first such abduction of a politician since Hamas forces routed their Fatah rivals and overtook the strip in June.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after attacking military posts controlled by the rival Fatah movement, whose own fighters responded with a daylight raid in the West Bank, broadening the civil strife.
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip  - Men keep watch from windows, others guard the street as members of Fatah gather discreetly at a comrade's home in the Gaza Strip to discuss the movement's fate since Hamas seized control of the enclave.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed  14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading  Palestinian militant group.