Palestinian gunfighting rages despite truce, mediation offer
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GAZA CITY -- Ignoring a truce and Arab mediation offers, Hamas and Fatah fighters exchanged gunfire in upscale beachfront neighborhoods yesterday, and Hamas gunmen threatened to attack high-rise buildings unless residents force rival snipers off their rooftops.
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Deadly clashes erupted Monday between rival factions in the Gaza Strip for the first time in more than a month, despite a conciliatory speech toward Hamas by Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Palestinian factions reached a new Egyptian-mediated truce on Monday in a bid to halt a cycle of bloodletting but the deal got off to a shaky start as shootings continued, including an attack on a Hamas minister's office.
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Palestinian factions behind rocket attacks on Israel signaled softer terms for a truce on Friday, giving Israel 48 hours in which to agree to a mutual cessation of violence in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said.
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Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 wounded in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.
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Deadly clashes between rival gunmen may presage a fight to the finish between Fatah and Hamas
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JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH  - Israelis and Palestinians  far from Tuesday's summit in Egypt expressed doubts whether a  cease-fire declared by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and  President Mahmoud Abbas could end four years of bloodshed.
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Mortar bombs exploded near the Gaza offices of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday and rival gunmen exchanged fire in the streets, defying the latest truce in the factional war between Fatah and Hamas.
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Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where six fighters were killed before both sides issued new pledges to hold their fire.
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Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where at least six fighters were killed, reviving fears of civil war.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will  demand obedience from militant factions in talks on Friday  after fighters bombarded Jewish settlements in Gaza despite a  ceasefire declared at a summit with Israel.
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Gunbattles raged between Hamas loyalists and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's forces in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding a dozen others, medical officials said.
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Israelis and Palestinians threatened Sunday to scrap a truce that has largely ended five months of Gaza violence, with Palestinian militants insisting it must also apply to the West Bank and Israeli leaders complaining that Gaza rocket squads are still active.
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Mediation efforts are under way to defuse rising tension between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.
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The Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said Saturday they were adhering to a de facto truce with Israel, but stopped short of committing to the official cease-fire that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed on at their summit.
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A Hamas commander is shot dead in Gaza, despite a ceasefire aimed at ending Palestinian infighting.
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Gunmen from rival Palestinian factions killed three people and wounded at least 22 others in the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Monday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas appealed for an end to the internal fighting.