Death strains informal Gaza truce
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An Israeli-Palestinian truce is shaken as a Palestinian girl is shot dead and Hamas retaliates with mortar fire.
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Four Palestinians, including an 11-year-year-old boy, were killed on Thursday as the Israeli army widened a major offensive in the northern Gaza Strip designed to halt rocket attacks by Hamas fighters.
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GAZA CITY -- Tens of thousands of Palestinians greeted a convoy of ambulances yesterday bringing home the bodies of 15 militants killed in clashes with Israelis -- an Israeli gesture understood by Gazans as the first concrete benefit of a new truce.
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Israelis and Palestinians threatened Sunday to scrap a truce that has largely ended five months of Gaza violence, with Palestinian militants insisting it must also apply to the West Bank and Israeli leaders complaining that Gaza rocket squads are still active.
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Four Palestinians were killed in clashes between rival clans in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hospital officials said, in the most intense violence since a coalition deal was reached this month between Fatah and Hamas.
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A cease-fire aimed at halting months of deadly internal Palestinian violence held on its first day, but underlying tensions cast doubt on the future of the stand-down.
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The Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said Saturday they were adhering to a de facto truce with Israel, but stopped short of committing to the official cease-fire that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed on at their summit.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Palestinian militants shelled  Jewish settlements on Monday after witnesses accused Israeli  troops of killing a girl at a U.N.-run Gaza school, straining a  de facto truce that has raised hopes for peace.
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GAZA CITY -- Three Palestinians, including an 8-year-old girl, were killed in separate clashes with the Israeli army yesterday, and an Israeli soldier was killed when Palestinians shelled a Gaza Strip settlement.
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The leading Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agreed to a cease-fire after street battles left at least two people dead, leaders of other parties involved in the talks announced early Monday.
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Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said Thursday after at least six Palestinians were killed in a day of Israeli air and ground strikes aimed at stopping rocket salvos from Gaza.
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Palestinian factions reached a new Egyptian-mediated truce on Monday in a bid to halt a cycle of bloodletting but the deal got off to a shaky start as shootings continued, including an attack on a Hamas minister's office.
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Sporadic gun battles continue in Gaza between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, despite a renewed truce.
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A truce between warring Palestinian factions entered its third day Thursday, marred by sporadic shootings.
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GAZA CITY: Three Palestinians, one a local Hamas leader, were killed yesterday as Israel pressed a major offensive in the Gaza Strip and imposed a watertight closure on the Palestinian territories ahead of the Jewish New Year.
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Hamas policemen and forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fought gunbattles at Gaza's main hospital on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding 11 in a further sign that a day-old truce was in tatters.
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A Hamas commander is killed during a gunfight with the rival Fatah faction, the first casualty since the ceasefire.