Israel fights Fatah militants in West Bank city
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NABLUS, West Bank  - An Israeli raid into a West Bank city dominated by Fatah gunmen drew accusations from Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that Israel was trying to undermine his new government shorn of Hamas Islamists.
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Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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The Israeli army poured into the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday, sparking firefights with Palestinians. Witnesses said as many as 70 armoured vehicles took part in the raid on the town and the nearby refugee camp.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Fatah gunmen took aim at Hamas rivals in the West Bank yesterday, 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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Palestinian militants are seeking revenge Friday, pounding Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip with mortars. The violence flared up after a top Hamas militant was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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JENIN, West Bank  - Israeli troops killed two Palestinians, including a local militant commander, in the West Bank on Monday, during clashes that raised doubts over how long a shaky truce in the Gaza Strip might last.
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HAMAS has won significant victories in local elections in the West Bank, the first to have been contested by the Islamic militant movement that is sworn to see Israelâs destruction.
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Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian militant during a fierce gunbattle Sunday in a West Bank refugee camp, a Palestinian militant group said.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces raided the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, putting 30,000 Palestinians under curfew as soldiers searched for wanted militants.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli troops killed two Palestinian militants in the West Bank on Thursday during a raid, local residents and medical officials said.
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JERUSALEM -- Hamas officials yesterday accused the Fatah party of trying to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in a burst of shooting a night earlier, as fresh clashes injured more than 30 people in the West Bank and raised worries of a slide toward wider violence.
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Israeli forces closed off a West Bank city and Palestinian militants celebrated after Hamas suicide bombers blew up two buses next to each other in the southern city of Beersheba, killing 16 passengers.
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Palestinian security officials say an Israeli helicopter strike on a car in the West Bank city of Jenin has killed a militant leader and at least two other people.
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Israeli troops hunting militants raided a West Bank hospital Monday, searching rooms and calling on fugitives over loudspeakers to surrender, and in Gaza soliders
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expected to be a test of strength between the dominant Fatah movement and Islamists sworn to destroying Israel. the elections. A similar poll in the Gaza Strip was delayed because violence prevented registration.
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The Israeli army Saturday killed six Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank, including a member of the armed wing of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades.
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Reports from the West Bank say the mainstream Fatah faction is on course to win municipal elections there despite a good showing by the militant Islamic group Hamas.