Gunmen target buildings of Palestinian PM, president
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Palestinian gunmen fired on Tuesday at the prime minister's home and the president's office in a surge of fighting by the two leaders' rival factions that has killed at least 20 people and brought civil war closer.
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Gunfire erupts near a potential Palestinian leader, though most doubt it was an assassination attempt. JERUSALEM - Gunmen in the Gaza Strip unleashed bursts of automatic-weapons fire Sunday near Yasser Arafat&#39;s
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JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas rode on the shoulders of the West Bankâs most famous gunman during a campaign stop, prompting questions of whether Abbas is playing campaign politics or identifying with
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Mortar bombs exploded near the Gaza offices of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday and rival gunmen exchanged fire in the streets, ignoring another shaky truce in the factional war between Fatah and Hamas.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired  three of his top security chiefs on Thursday after militants,  puncturing a cease-fire he reached with Israel, bombarded  Jewish settlements in Gaza with mortar rounds.
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The Chairman of PLO executive committee Mahmoud Abbas, or Abu Mazen, escaped on Sunday night an assassination attempt as he was attacked by unknown militants atthe mourning tent
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Palestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister's office during factional fighting on Monday that killed 9 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s interim successor has escaped uninjured after militants opened fire in a mourning tent for the dead leader. Mahmoud Abbas was whisked to safety after militants firing rifles burst in on the tent just after he arrived.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas officials yesterday accused the Fatah party of trying to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in a burst of shooting a night earlier, as fresh clashes injured more than 30 people in the West Bank and raised worries of a slide toward wider violence.
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Gunmen fired mortar bombs at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's office in Gaza on Sunday after Abbas forces took over two ministries run by the ruling Hamas movement, which has dismissed his call for new elections.
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JENIN, West Bank  - Borne aloft by cheering  gunmen, Palestinian presidential hopeful Mahmoud Abbas cut an  unusual figure in his gray business suit.
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Sunday&#39;s violent confrontation between militants and bodyguards protecting the interim Palestinian leader was the latest sign of the challenges ahead for Palestinians
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The new Palestinian prime minister delivered a stern, two-pronged warning yesterday to hundreds of Islamic preachers, including Hamas supporters: He won't tolerate calls for violence delivered from mosque pulpits, and he plans to collect militants' weapons.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired  three of his top security chiefs on Thursday after militants,  puncturing a ceasefire he reached with Israel, bombarded Jewish  settlements in Gaza with mortar rounds.
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MAHMOUD Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, has called for an end to armed attacks against Israeli targets in an attempt to mark out a new strategy for peace in the wake of Yasser Arafatâs death.
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Palestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister's office during factional fighting on Monday that killed 11 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition.
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A top Palestinian militant leader in the West Bank was shot in the head and seriously wounded, militants and hospital officials said.