Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:08 AM EST
Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal has decided not to seek another term, the movement said Saturday, paving the way for a possible leadership contest at a time when the anti-Israeli Islamic group faces far-reaching decisions on whether to stay the course of militancy or moderate.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:13 PM EST
Hamas officials say senior members of their exiled leadership will evacuate their families from the group's headquarters in Syria.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:05 AM EST
Masked Hamas police beat and detained members of the Gaza Strip's tiny Shiite community during a religious commemoration last week, a follower and local rights groups said Tuesday, accusing their Islamist rulers of religious intolerance.
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Thu Dec 8, 2011 6:22 AM EST
Palestinian security officials say a car carrying three people has exploded near a public garden in Gaza City.
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Tue Nov 1, 2011 3:15 AM EDT
An Egyptian official said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to briefly delay expanding its military operations in the Gaza Strip to give Egypt time to try to persuade Palestinian militant factions to halt rocket fire on southern Israel.
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Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:23 AM EDT
A Hamas official said Thursday that close to 200 of the 450 Palestinians to be freed in the first phase of a swap for a captured Israeli soldier will not be allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank, Gaza or east Jerusalem, suggesting a substantial number may face deportation.
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Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:51 PM EDT
President Mahmoud Abbas' surge of popularity following his bid for U.N. recognition for a Palestinian state is bound to give him a stronger hand against the rival Hamas group as they prepare to resume talks on a stalled power-sharing deal next week.
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Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:33 PM EDT
In the Palestinians' high-profile bid to seek statehood at the United Nations, half the future nation they envision has been all but forgotten. Residents of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip are watching frustrated from the sidelines as the West Bank-based leadership pushes for the long-held dream.
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Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:14 AM EDT
A Palestinian news agency said that a firebomb was hurled at its Gaza City newsroom, setting off a small fire Sunday morning.
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Tue Jul 5, 2011 6:08 AM EDT
Maher Khoudari boasts that his Gaza grocery has a wide assortment of chocolates for sale — even some you couldn't find in the cosmopolitan Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The problem is, there is no one to buy them.
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Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:53 AM EDT
The reopening of the Gaza Strip's main border crossing with Egypt brought widespread relief to Palestinians suffering from a four-year blockade. But one month later, some 20,000 people are on a wait list and despair is growing in this crowded territory.
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:06 AM EDT
A founder of Hamas in the Gaza Strip died Friday of a stroke after decades as an influential yet little-known figure at the helm of the Palestinian militant organization. He was 76.
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Fri May 27, 2011 1:13 PM EDT
Egypt lifted a 4-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, greatly easing travel restrictions on the 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territory in a move that bolstered the Hamas government while dealing a setback to Israel's attempts to isolate the militant group.
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Fri May 13, 2011 2:00 AM EDT
Hamas, the Islamic militant group known for suicide bombings, rocket attacks and hatred of Israel, is sending subtle signals of moderation as it prepares to join a Palestinian unity government.
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Thu May 5, 2011 2:44 PM EDT
This territory was made for such a race, some 26 miles from top to bottom.
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Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:11 PM EDT
Rival Palestinian groups said they reached an agreement Wednesday on reuniting their governments in the West Bank and Gaza after years of bitter infighting that weakened them politically and caused the deaths of hundreds in violent clashes and crackdowns since.
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Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:35 AM EDT
Rival Palestinian groups said they reached an agreement Wednesday on reuniting their governments in the West Bank and Gaza after years of bitter infighting that weakened them politically and caused the deaths of hundreds in violent clashes and crackdowns since.
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Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:21 AM EDT
A Hamas official says two suspects have been arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of an Italian activist in the Palestinian territory.
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:33 PM EDT
The body of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist abducted a few hours earlier by Islamic extremists has been found hanged in a Gaza City house, the Hamas government said early Friday.
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:42 PM EDT
The body of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist abducted a few hours earlier by Islamic extremists has been found hanged in a Gaza City house after a clash between Hamas police and the abductors, Hamas officials said early Friday.
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:40 PM EDT
The body of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist abducted a few hours earlier has been found in a Gaza City house after a clash between Hamas police and the abductors, Hamas officials said early Friday.
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:57 PM EDT
Gaza officials say four Palestinians have suffocated while trying to repair a smuggling tunnel hit in an Israeli airstrike last week.
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Sat Apr 9, 2011 2:54 AM EDT
Palestinian militants fired more than 30 rockets at southern Israel on Saturday and Israeli warplanes killed five militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory.
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Fri Apr 8, 2011 7:06 PM EDT
Israeli aircraft and tanks pounded Gaza on Friday, killing seven Hamas militants and five civilians in a surge of fighting sparked by a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli school bus the day before.
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Thu Mar 3, 2011 12:03 PM EST
All banks in the Gaza Strip temporarily shut down on Thursday after Hamas-affiliated men forced a local branch to cash some $500,000 in checks.
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