Hamas 'in full control of Gaza'
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Hamas says it has taken full control of Gaza, hours after Palestinian President Abbas declared an emergency.
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Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip by the tens of thousands Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June.
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Hamas has full security control, but no political authority. Ministries were deserted, the courts were not operating. All the major Fatah security headquarters have been ransacked along with the private homes of their key officers.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip yesterday after attacking military posts controlled by the rival Fatah movement, whose own fighters responded with a daylight raid in the West Bank, broadening the civil strife.
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The Palestinian national resistance movement ( Hamas) disclosed that the sudden meeting which was held between the movement and the leadership of the Palestinian leadership in Gaza on Thursday evening came in the course of preparations for a series of
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas Islamic militants  scored significant successes in Palestinian municipal  elections, the first contested by the group sworn to destroying  Israel, initial results showed on Friday.
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Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed  14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading  Palestinian militant group.
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In an interview, key Hamas strategist Mahmoud Zahar discusses how his movement has been preparing for a potentially imminent Israeli assault on Gaza.
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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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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers  killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the  leading Palestinian militant group.
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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli troops seized a top Hamas militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading Palestinian militant group.
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At least seven Palestinians were killed in one of the bloodiest days for Hamas since it took control of the Gaza Strip three weeks ago.
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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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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 Friday, apparently