Hamas challenges Egypt's bid to close Gaza border
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt started to close its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday but Palestinian militants bulldozed a new opening in a challenge to Cairo and Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run territory.
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Hamas' path in consolidating control in the Gaza Strip:
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The chaotic scenes on the Gaza-Egypt border are forcing Israel, Egypt and the international community to rethink a two-year policy of trying to weaken Gaza's Hamas rulers by keeping the territory sealed.
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Hamas Islamist gunmen pressed on with their Gaza offensive on Wednesday, killing at least eight fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in a Palestinian power struggle bordering on civil war.
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The United States expressed concern Wednesday about tens of thousands of Palestinians pouring into Egypt from the Gaza Strip across a broken security barrier at the border of the small territory run by Hamas militants.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 25 -- Egyptian security forces deployed Friday with barbed wire, water cannon and tasers to close their country's breached border with Gaza, shutting down a two-day Palestinian exodus from Gaza after Palestinian fighters blew up the border wall.
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Egypt allowed hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims stranded for five days along the border to enter the Gaza Strip on Wednesday over the objections of Israel, which had sought to keep out suspected members of the militant group Hamas.
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Palestinian militants forced open a border gate Friday between Egypt and Gaza, letting hundreds of people pour across despite warning shots from Israeli helicopter gunships.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel eased its siege of Gaza for a day on Tuesday, allowing in shipments of fuel and medicine. But tensions erupted over Egypt's closure of its Gaza border, with Palestinian protesters breaking through the crossing and clashing with Egyptian guards.
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Palestinian gunmen and  Egyptian forces exchanged fire at the Gaza-Egypt border on  Monday, killing one person and wounding 59 others a day after  Cairo closed the breached frontier with the Hamas-run enclave.
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Hamas-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Gaza-Egypt border Â a brazen challenge to Egyptian riot police, who abandoned their positions after attempting to reseal the frontier using human chains, dogs and water cannons.
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Egypt sends police to its border with Gaza to stop Palestinians stranded in Sinai from crossing over.
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defence minister said on Thursday.
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Islamist groups are vying for influence in Gaza in a race to fill the security vacuum created by fighting between Fatah and Hamas.
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Egypt invites the Palestinian group Hamas to attend talks in Cairo "promptly" on resolving the border crisis.
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Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade.
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Clashes erupted along the Rafah border crossing between Egyptian troops and Palestinians. Egypt is attempting to close the border which was breached on January 23