Hamas gains ground on Fatah in Gaza battles
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Hamas Islamist fighters gained ground on Wednesday against forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in battles for control of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian supremacy struggle he termed "madness".
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A Hamas military victory in Gaza would create a two-headed Palestine &#151; with the Islamic extremists in control in the coastal strip and Western-backed Fatah ruling the West Bank.
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The two factions battled today in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
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Eight people are killed in continuing clashes between Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- Gunmen of rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sharply escalated their fight for supremacy yesterday, with Hamas taking over much of the northern Gaza Strip in what is beginning to look increasingly like a civil war.
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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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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 14 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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Deadly clashes erupted Monday between rival factions in the Gaza Strip for the first time in more than a month, despite a conciliatory speech toward Hamas by Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Gunmen loyal to the two main Palestinian parties fought street battles in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Wednesday that increasingly bore the hallmarks of civil war, as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah leader, warned that the rival Hamas movement was...
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Hamas fighters on Thursday raised the green flags of the Islamist movement over one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses said.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and looters ransacked the blood-spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday, rejoicing at the rout of their well-armed, secular rivals from the president's Fatah faction.
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Preliminary election results from the West Bank indicate the mainstream Fatah faction is leading in the first Palestinian municipal elections since 1976 despite a strong showing by the militant Islamic group Hamas.
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Fighting between Hamas and Fatah erupted Friday, bringing a 3-day truce between the Palestinian factions to an end
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Hamas security forces armed with rifles and clubs beat Fatah supporters trying to hold street prayers to protest the Islamic group's rule in Gaza, witnesses said. Hamas men also assaulted at least seven Palestinian journalists and detained five.
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Hamas appeared to reinforce its armed presence on the streets of Gaza City on Friday ahead of a planned prayer rally by the rival Fatah faction and following a similar gathering last week that ended in violence.
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Hamas militants in Gaza kill a rival from Fatah - the first eruption of Palestinian infighting in two weeks.