Hamas militia, Abbas loyalists clash
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Militiamen from the ruling Hamas opened fire on government workers protesting their unpaid salaries on Sunday, touching off gunbattles with security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. Four people were killed in the violence.
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Hamas Islamist fighters and forces loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas battled on Wednesday for control of the Gaza Strip in an escalating Palestinian supremacy struggle he described as "madness".
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Gunbattles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding a dozen others, medical officials said.
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Supporters of rival Palestinian groups clash after Hamas accuses Fatah of trying kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.
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Rival Palestinian forces exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, residents said, despite appeals for calm from moderate President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
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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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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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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian gunmen from Hamas and Fatah exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip early today, killing a local militia leader and wounding seven people in the most serious flareup of violence since a power-sharing deal between the political rivals last month. Both sides blamed each other for starting the battle in the town of Beit Hanoun. Today's death ...
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Gun battles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in Gaza City on Tuesday, killing at least three people and reviving fears the strip was slipping closer to civil war.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh insisted Friday that Hamas' 6,000-strong militia be recognized as a branch of the Palestinian security forces, a point of dispute that has provoked bloody clashes with the rival Fatah movement in the past.
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GAZA CITY -- Hamas militiamen's efforts to break up antigovernment protests sparked gun battles across the Gaza Strip yesterday that killed eight people in the worst internal Palestinian violence since Hamas took power.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - A gunbattle sparked by  militants confronting moderate interim Palestinian leader  Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Gaza underscores the urgent need  for elections to replace Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials  said.
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Gun battles erupt in the Gaza Strip between Hamas fighters and security forces, threatening a fragile truce.
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Hamas gunmen ambushed what the Islamic group said was a convoy carrying weapons to Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and four people were killed, residents said.
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Fighting in Gaza City between militant group Hamas and a rival Palestinian clan leaves at least four dead.
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Gun battles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in Gaza City on Tuesday, killing at least three people and reviving fears the strip was sliding into civil war.
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Gunmen killed a Fatah member in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and a supporter of rival group Hamas was critically wounded in a separate incident amid an escalating power struggle between the two Palestinian groups.