Gaza fighting escalates as Hamas seizes Fatah bases
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 15 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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The ruling Hamas group accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
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Violent clashes are continuing in the Gaza Strip on the fifth day of Israeli attacks in the region. At least three Palestinians were killed in early morning raids launched shortly after Israel&#39;s army chief
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Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal Palestinian violence since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994.
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JERUSALEM, June 11 -- Fatah and Hamas gunmen resumed intense street fighting Monday 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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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Fatah gunmen took aim at Hamas rivals in the West Bank yesterday, storming the Hamas-led parliament and ransacking offices of the Islamist group amid fears that last week's fighting in the Gaza Strip could trigger a wider reprisal campaign here.
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The Hamas party further consolidated its control of northern Gaza today in Palestinian factional battles.
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Hostilities escalated for the second time in a month as militant groups in Gaza stepped up their rocket fire against nearby Israeli population centers.
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Israel has escalated its military offensive in Gaza with an air strike on a militant stronghold that killed a senior Hamas leader.
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Hamas Islamist gunmen pressed on with their Gaza offensive on Wednesday, killing eight fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas in a Palestinian supremacy struggle escalating steadily into civil war.
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Rival Palestinian forces clashed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday near the strategic Karni commercial crossing in the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in more than two weeks.
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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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The attack underlines the potential of the violent Hamas-Fatah power struggle to spill over into Israel.
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Hamas gunmen stormed a Fatah security headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday, moving Palestinians closer to civil war, minutes after the Islamist group's deadline for its rival to quit key strongholds expired.
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Factional violence raged in Gaza today between the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, despite a new cease-fire that was supposed to have come into effect at 11 a.m.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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Deadly clashes between rival gunmen may presage a fight to the finish between Fatah and Hamas