Hamas, Fatah agree to try to reinstate ceasefire
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Hamas and Fatah leaders said after talks on Friday they agreed to revive a ceasefire deal that fell apart after a day of fierce fighting.
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Israeli and Palestinian officials are  trying to work out a deal to end Israel's biggest Gaza  offensive in four years of conflict in return for stopping  rocket fire into the Jewish state, security sources said.
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A ceasefire between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday after five months of bloodshed in the coastal strip, raising the possibility of moribund Middle East peacemaking being revived.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad reserve judgement on peace with Israel but agree to refrain from violence.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government endorsed on Monday President Mahmoud Abbas's proposal for a ceasefire between militants and Israel, a cabinet spokesman said.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said a deal was reached between his Fatah faction and Hamas to halt fierce clashes in the Gaza Strip in which six fighters were killed on Tuesday.
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Fatah and Hamas members abducted by gunmen were freed late on Monday as part of deal between the two side, Fatah and Hamas sources said.
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GAZA CITY -- Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said yesterday.
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Rival Palestinian factions began swapping hostages on Tuesday under a ceasefire deal that went into effect hours earlier, largely halting gunbattles in which at least 30 Palestinians were killed, officials said.
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Hamas and Fatah said that they had reached a new agreement to remove gunmen from the streets.
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Hamas says it will accept a temporary truce if Israel halts targeted killings and releases Palestinian prisoners.
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Palestinian officials presented a detailed  plan to Israel for the deployment of Gaza security forces to  halt attacks on Israelis, and the militant Hamas group set its  terms on Thursday for a cease-fire.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Palestinian and Israeli leaders agreed on Thursday to meet for the first time in two months after an Islamist takeover of the Gaza Strip prompted both to sharpen their confrontation with Hamas in the enclave.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia Feb. 7 â Leaders of Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian political factions, opened a Saudi-sponsored emergency meeting in Islamâs holiest city today with promises to compromise on a new government that could salvage the dormant Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations and end a wave of violence in Gaza and the West Bank in recent months.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 8 -- Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed Thursday to form a power-sharing government and end the armed feuding that has killed scores of Palestinians over the past year.
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Gunmen began withdrawing from Gaza's streets, some hostages were released and many shops reopened on Sunday as a shaky ceasefire appeared to be taking hold in factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, residents said.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some US allies agreed yesterday to try to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but clashed over how to handle the Palestinian militant group Hamas and one of its key backers, Syria.