Victorious Hamas gunmen rounded up senior military leaders of the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip early Friday, then announced a general amnesty in a sign the Islamic movement is seeking to reconcile with its secular rivals after five days of fierce fighting.
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Six Palestinians were killed and three wounded on Monday afternoon in fresh infighting between rival Fatah and Hamas movements’ militants in the Gaza Strip, medics and eyewitnesses said.
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Two Lebanese Red Cross workers have been killed outside a Palestinian refugee camp where troops are battling Islamist fighters, officials have said.
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The Israeli air force struck at least two buildings in Gaza City in the early hours this morning in an apparent response to a raid across the Gaza-Israel border by Palestinian militants on Saturday.
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92% of Palestinians are depressed.
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Two soldiers, one civilian, and one militant died yesterday as clashes between the Lebanese army and Palestinian militants spread to a second refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
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In Lebanon, fighting has resumed at a Palestinian refugee camp where the Lebanese military has squared off against the Islamic militant group Fatah Islam. Eighty people have now been killed in the conflict, including civilians.
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Israeli troops arrested more than thirty officials in the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
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Eight Palestinians have died after the Israeli Air Force bombed the home of a leading Palestinian lawmaker on Sunday. It was the deadliest strike since Israel began bombing Gaza last week.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, today urged the US to ask Israel to halt its military escalation. Abbas made his appeal as Israeli aircraft struck Gaza for a second day running.
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Three children were among seven Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Thursday, while four more four died in internal factional fighting.
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Hamas’s television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike that urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. During one of the skits, Farfur told young viewers that he aspired to be like the slain spiritual leaders of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Israeli Prime Minister blamed the military for the failings in the Lebanon war.
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The World Bank today called on Israel to ease its extensive restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to fuel a Palestinian economic revival.
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Hamas declared an end to its ceasefire with Israel, armed protestors dropped the corpse of a murdered man named Hassan Abu Sharkh in the Palestinian Authority Parliament, several rockets struck Israel from Gaza, and the Israel Defense Forces killed three Hamas agents planting a bomb by the Gaza border fence.
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Twenty-five Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in several days of violence sparked when a Hamas operative was killed by a bomb in Gaza, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
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A ten-year-old Palestinian girl died after being shot in the back of the head by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Anata.
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Fewer Israeli civilians died in Palestinian attacks in 2006 than in any year since the Palestinian uprising began in 2000.
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In Israel and the Occupied Territories, new figures released by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem show Israeli forces killed six-hundred and sixty Palestinians this year. B’Tselem says that’s three times more than in 2005. The figure includes one hundred and forty-one children. Nearly half of the total dead were not involved in hostile acts.
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For the first time in 10 years, Israel said Tuesday it will build a new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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