Palestinian Factions Clash, Killing 5
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In some of the heaviest fighting since the elections in January, Hamas and Fatah battled in Gaza today, as Hamas forces tried to disrupt Fatah-organized protests over unpaid government salaries.
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Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants in gun battles on Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Palestinians battled on across the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday and eight more factional fighters were killed, raising the death toll to 55 in four days of the fiercest internal fighting in months, hospital officials said.
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Gunmen from rival Palestinian factions clashed on the streets of Gaza on Friday in the latest round of internal violence that has brought the coastal territory to the brink of civil war, security sources said.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 15--Rival Palestinian factions exchanged gunfire Friday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, leaving more than 30 people wounded, as leaders from both parties warned of a violent escalation that could push the territories toward a wider civil conflict.
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Fighting erupted in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday and a Hamas gunman was killed, the first fatality in such clashes since the Islamist movement agreed with its Fatah rivals to form a unity government a month ago.
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Palestinian resistance operations against the Israeli forces have been escalated. News reports in Gaza said five Israeli soldiers and one woman settlers were killed in three separate clashes in Beit Hanoun
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A gun battle with Israeli soldiers leaves five Palestinian militants dead in the West Bank town of Nablus.
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Five Palestinians are killed, and several injured, by Israeli fire in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 14 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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Gunmen from rival Palestinian factions killed one person and wounded 10 others in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank on Monday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas appealed for an end to the internal fighting.
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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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Five people were killed when Palestinians  mounted an attack near an Israeli army base in Gaza on  Thursday, witnesses and radio stations said, hours after the  Palestinians' new leader called for an end to violence.
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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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Nine Palestinian militants and a child were killed Wednesday during clashes in the northern West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin, Palestinian medics said.
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Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops today in an operation against rocket launchers in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and Palestinian medics said
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Israeli troops killed five Palestinian  militants on Monday, including two Hamas gunmen who slipped  across Israel's fenced boundary with Gaza for a rare  cross-border attack, Palestinian and military sources said.