Hamas sees blockade end after deal, Fatah worried
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian Islamist group Hamas urged the West on Friday to accept a new Palestinian unity government which it said was the only way to ensure stability in the Middle East.
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Egypt will close its breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not stand in the way, a Hamas leader 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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Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agree a ceasefire, officials say, but fighting rages on in Gaza.
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The Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are close to an agreement on power sharing in the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported Sunday. Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told the London based Arab newspaper
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The agreement seemed to stop short of meeting the demands of the international community on Hamas.
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A senior leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas says his organization will not stand in the way of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement if it is fair for the Palestinians.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Thursday that months of coalition talks with the ruling Hamas have hit a "dead end" &#151; and his aides said he's done negotiating with the Islamic militants.
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Israel agreed to allow some fuel, medicine and food into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at least temporarily easing a blockade that has plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests.
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The Palestinian Authority president said that he had reached a tentative agreement with Hamas meant to end the PalestiniansÂ international isolation.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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Hamas and Fatah security officials exchanged fire at Gaza's border with Egypt on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh passed through on his way to reconciliation talks
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Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahri accused the Islamist group Hamas of serving U.S. interests by agreeing to respect past Palestinian accords with Israel in a Saudi-brokered deal with the U.S.-backed Fatah faction.
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Hamas agreed on Saturday to  Egyptian calls to control the flow of Palestinians through the  breached Gaza border and expects Egypt to seal remaining gaps  in the frontier wall, a Hamas official said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas   could sack the Hamas-led Palestinian government if it does not   agree to his terms by the end of the month, a senior official   from Abbas's Fatah movement said on Monday.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - A leading member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas entered Egypt from Gaza on Thursday to resume talks with the Egyptian government on arrangements at the border, a security source said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The militant group Hamas will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a long-term truce with Israel, a leader said yesterday, apparently softening Hamas's hard-line stance and boosting hopes for renewed peace efforts after Yasser Arafat's death.