Hamas rejects call for cease-fire
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GAZA CITY: Palestinian hard-liners rejected Wednesday a call by new PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas to lay down their weapons as a spiraling death toll in Gaza threatened to undermine his efforts to bring calm to the region.
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JERUSALEM, June 12 -- Fatah and Hamas gunmen resumed intense street fighting Monday and Tuesday in the Gaza Strip after Egyptian efforts to mediate a new cease-fire failed to draw scores of masked gunmen off the streets.
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Egypt will close the breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not try to prevent it, a senior Hamas leader said after holding talks with Egyptian officials.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - A Hamas leader said the  militant group could accept creation of a Palestinian state in  the West Bank and Gaza and a long-term truce with Israel,  signaling a possible new overture to end hostilities.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview published on Saturday. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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The leader of the Hizbullah group on Saturday rejected a UN resolution calling for his guerilla army to be dismantled, saying the world body&#39;s call served Israeli interests.
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Wednesday dismissed PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas&#39;s call for an end to armed attacks, saying such statements don&#39;t serve the interests of the Palestinians.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Islamic militant groups behind many suicide bombings dismissed yesterday a call from Mahmoud Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, to halt attacks in the run-up to a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinian militants signaled on Sunday  they would help maintain calm in Gaza for at least a month but  denied Israeli reports they had agreed to a cease-fire at the  behest of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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CAIRO - A top Hamas leader rejected a call by PLO chief Mahmud Abbas for Palestinian militant groups to lay down their arms in the fight against Israeli occupation, in an interview published Tuesday.
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Saudi Arabia and Egypt will not try to mediate the conflict between Hamas and Fatah for the time being, an Egyptian spokesman said Tuesday after a meeting between the leaders of the two powerhouse Arab nations.
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The Palestinian prime minister said Friday that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
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Israel on Tuesday ruled out holding Mideast peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas once he forms a coalition with Hamas militants, saying the new unity government must give in to international demands to recognize Israel's right to exist.
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Israel killed two Hamas militants in an air strike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and said it was not considering a ceasefire with the Islamist group despite appeals from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Hamas rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's call for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing on Saturday to attack them like other "occupation forces".
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Hamas said on Friday it would not join any   Palestinian unity government that recognized Israel, rebuffing   President Mahmoud Abbas who told the United Nations any future   coalition would do so and also renounce violence.
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The United States on Tuesday rejected the saying that it had held contacts with Hamas as a leader of the radical Palestinian group has claimed.