Hamas Disagreements Laid Bare
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Four months after the Hamas takeover of Gaza, the usually hidden arguments between the group's rival camps were unexpectedly laid bare
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Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip following a day of violence between gunmen from both groups, a Hamas official said on Sunday.
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought in Gaza City's beachfront neighborhoods and around security compounds Saturday, ignoring renewed truce appeals and Arab mediation efforts. One man was killed, raising the death toll from three days of fighting to 26.
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The abduction of an Israeli soldier has laid bare deep rifts inside Hamas, with militants from the group claiming responsibility and Palestinian government officials insisting they knew nothing of the operation.
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BEIRUT : The Palestinian movement Hamas denied that its leadership had decided to strike Israeli interests abroad, vowing to avenge the killing of top militant in a time and place of its own choosing.
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Hamas Thursday denied European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana had direct contact with the Palestinian militant group. Solana had told the BBC he had contacts with Hamas
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No serious negotiations have been held   on swapping an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza-based militants   for Palestinian prisoners, Hamas's exiled political leader   Khaled Meshaal said in remarks published on Thursday.
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Analysis: Air strikes have taken out some Hamas leaders and crews firing rockets at Israel. But many Palestinians perceive the Israeli actions as support for Fatah
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NABLUS, West Bank -- For the first time, large numbers of Palestinians are beginning to direct their widespread frustration toward the Islamist militant movement Hamas for its seeming inability to alleviate the suffering of ordinary Palestinians since it took over the reins of government early this year.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they are not bound by the Palestinian truce agreed with Israel in Egypt.
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Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- Scattered clashes were reported yesterday around the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a day after fierce fighting between the ruling Hamas movement and rivals in the formerly dominant Fatah party.
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Hamas ruled out any truce with Israel Sunday and repeated its desire to destroy the Jewish state, rejecting what had appeared to be more conciliatory comments by one of the Islamic militant group&#39;s leaders.
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Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Wednesday that the national unity government that Palestinians are trying to establish would be nothing more than a "facade" because Hamas militants who would be represented aren't interested in peace.
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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas says two of its fighters died in clashes with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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Rival Palestinian factions are putting on a show of unity today in the Gaza Strip, as concern mounts over Yasser Arafat. Representatives of 13 Palestinian factions, including the two Islamic militant groups
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The United States denied it had held contacts with Hamas as a leader of the radical Palestinian group has claimed. &quot;We don&#39;t conduct business with designated terrorist organisations.