Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man Thursday, the third such fatal shooting in the West Bank in recent days amid escalating tensions among soldiers, Jewish settlers and Palestinians.
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Jubilant relatives greeted 429 Palestinian prisoners with
firecrackers, blaring horns and tearful embraces Monday after Israel
freed them in a peace gesture to moderate Palestinian leaders.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sharpened the war of
words against his Hamas rivals Thursday, saying it was time to “bring
down” the militant group’s regime in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday decreed
new election rules intended to make it harder for his faction’s Hamas
rivals to win the presidency or keep their majority in parliament.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered an overhaul of
his security apparatus Friday after an inquiry panel held 60 officers
responsible for its collapse in factional fighting that gave Hamas
control of the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas installed an emergency
government Sunday and declared the parliament led by his Hamas rivals
powerless, a move that paves the way for an end to a Western
financial embargo.
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Fatah gunmen took aim at Hamas rivals in the West Bank on Saturday,
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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Responding to a week of rocket attacks, Israeli troops today arrested
33 senior members of Hamas, including the Palestinian Authority’s
education minister, three members of parliament and six mayors, in
predawn raids on their West Bank homes, the army said.
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It has been a month since Alan Johnston, a
BBC journalist accustomed
to working in dangerous places, was forced from his car in the Gaza
Strip by four masked gunmen.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday outlawed
the Hamas-led Interior Ministry’s police force, the most powerful
armed unit outside his control in factional fighting that has left 33
people dead in the last month.
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