Hundreds flee Hamas-run Gaza amid spillover fears
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Hundreds of Fatah supporters fled the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by land and sea on Saturday and the Islamist group threatened to take its fight against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces to the West Bank.
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Two Palestinian militants travelling in the Gaza Strip managed to escape an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle seconds before it exploded Tuesday, security sources and witnesses say.
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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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RAFAH, Egypt  - Egyptian troops pulled back overnight from the breached Gaza border after a security guard was shot in the foot, allowing thousands of Palestinians to stream across unhindered.
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A smattering of Hamas-affiliated security forces, many of them bearded and dressed in blue camouflage uniforms, fanned out on both sides of the breached Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to jointly police the crossing with Egyptian guards.
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For much of the day, it appeared Tuesday as if the Jewish settlements of the Gaza Strip had already been evacuated. By the thousands, settlers piled onto buses, leaving behind closed shops and padlocked schools.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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Hamas and Fatah security officials traded fire at Gaza's border with Egypt on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh passed through on his way to reconciliation talks between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah group in Saudi Arabia, witnesses said.
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FIVE thousand Israeli police and thousands of soldiers will help evacuate Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in what is expected to be the most violent confrontation ever between Israel&#39;s authorities and its own citizens.
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Fatah members were fleeing Gaza Friday as Hamas began trying to round up the remaining elements of the rival faction, Hamas radio reported.
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Thousands of Palestinians streamed over the border crossing and went on a spree of buying fuel and other supplies that have been cut off from their territory by Israel.
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Hamas fighters hunted down key loyalists of the Western-backed Palestinian president in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after the Islamists seized most of the final strongholds of the secular Fatah movement in the enclave.
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Worn down by thousands of rockets fired from the nearby Gaza Strip, an estimated one-seventh of the people of this Israeli town have fled. Many more say they would go if they could. The mayor says life here has become "impossible."
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Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated into Israel at a key border crossing on Saturday, igniting a fire fight in which one gunman was killed, and prompting Israeli threats of further violence.
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Hundreds of Palestinians are allowed to leave Gaza to make the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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A smuggling tunnel being dug by  Palestinians on the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed on Friday and  at least five people were trapped inside, witnesses in the Gaza  frontier town of Rafah said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.