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• Israeli Air Force Strike Kills Top Hamas Commander in Gaza City

  Published: August 22, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Idf, Gaza City, Military Strike, Israeli Air Force, Top Hamas Commander Killed

  Hamas terrorist commander in Gaza City Wednesday. Yehiye Habib was killed in the strike and three of his deputies were wounded... The IDF confirmed the air strike, saying the men were approaching the Gaza perimeter fence... The strike is the latest in a string of IDF targeted killings aimed at those involved in firing rockets at Jewish

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• Hamas blames Fatah for blast in Gaza's police

  Published: October 4, 2007, 10:40 am

  Tags: World, Gaza City, Hamas Fatah Factions, Middle East

  Hamas officials said an explosion went off early Thursday near a group of Hamas policemen patrolling in Gaza City, wounding three, including one critically.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Farc, North Waziristan, Sirnak Province, Claude Monet, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Hassan Abdullah, Hosni Mubarak, Paris, Seine River, Sinai Peninsula, China, Egypt, Hamas, Iraq, Myanmar, Orsay Museum, Pakistan, Palestinian Bible Society, The Taliban, Venezuela, Xin

  Thousands of angry demonstrators destroyed the regional headquarters of Egypt's ruling party in El Arish on Sunday, demanding government protection from lawlessness after a downtown shootout between masked Bedouin tribesmen and locals, police and witnesses said.

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• On the Road to Nowhere, Merchants Pay the Toll

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, Road, Nowhere, Merchants, Pay, Toll, West Bank, Israel, Gaza Strip, Hisham Amer, Atta Kleb, United States, Hamas, Europe, Ibrahim Mushtaha, Mahmoud Abbas, Ruven Hirak, Sayed Marai, Baruch Persky, Basel, Gaza City, Ibrahim Amer, Southeast Asia, Tel Aviv, Bar Ilan Unive

  MAS-HA, West Bank -- From the Zeituna Restaurant to the Basel Furniture store, business once thrived along the road that runs through this Palestinian village, conducted in a language no longer spoken here.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Hamas, Myanmar, Musa Qala, The Taliban, Helmand Province, Jammu Kashmir, Gaza City, George W Bush, Horn Of Africa, Mahmoud Abbas, Mandalay, Mogadishu, Shizuo Nagano, The White House, Yangon, Afghanistan, Fatah Organization, Japan, Reporters Without Borders

  Burma lifted a curfew on Saturday and ended a ban on assembly imposed during a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests -- the latest sign that military rulers are confident they have fully crushed the largest demonstrations in two decades.

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• On the Road to Nowhere, Merchants Pay the Toll

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, Road, Nowhere, Merchants, Pay, Toll, West Bank, Israel, Gaza Strip, Hisham Amer, Atta Kleb, United States, Hamas, Europe, Ibrahim Mushtaha, Mahmoud Abbas, Ruven Hirak, Sayed Marai, Baruch Persky, Basel, Gaza City, Ibrahim Amer, Southeast Asia, Tel Aviv, Bar Ilan Unive

  MAS-HA, West Bank -- From the Zeituna Restaurant to the Basel Furniture store, business once thrived along the road that runs through this Palestinian village, conducted in a language no longer spoken here.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Ernesto Guillermo Barreiro, United States, Mikhail Saakashvili, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Hamas, Somalia, Abkhazia, Florida, Abasan, Andrew Mwangura, Black Sea, Buenos Aires, Caribbean, Diego Hunziker, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Jabalia, James E Williams, Mogadishu, Perve

  A U.S. Navy destroyer helped sailors who retook their vessel Tuesday in a deadly battle with pirates after the North Korean-flagged ship was hijacked off Somalia, the U.S. military said.

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• 6 Killed in Gaza as Hamas Forces Disperse Huge Fatah Rally Held in Memory of Arafat

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Killed, Gaza, Hamas, Forces, Disperse, Huge, Fatah, Rally, Held, Memory, Arafat, Gaza Strip, Fatah Organization, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine, Ramallah, The Washington Post Company, Ahmad Hilles, Ehab Ghussein, Gaza City, Jamal Zakout, Jerusalem, Mohammed

  JERUSALEM, Nov. 12 -- Hamas militiamen on Monday violently dispersed a massive rally organized in the Gaza Strip by the rival Fatah movement. Six people were killed and 75 wounded, Palestinian officials said.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: November 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Nicolas Sarkozy, Poland, Kandahar Province, Donald Tusk, Gaza City, Mahmoud Abbas, Manmohan Singh, Warsaw, Afghanistan, Australia, East Timor, Hamas, India, Iraq, Israel, The Taliban, United Nations, United States

  Striking French rail workers voted on Friday to extend their protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to cut their pension rights, but one trade union called for workers to return to work and resume negotiations.

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• Hawkish Party Leaves Israel's Ruling Coalition

  Published: January 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hawkish, Party, Leaves, Israel S, Ruling, Coalition, Avigdor Lieberman, Ehud Olmert, Israel, Gaza Strip, Yaron Ezrahi, Amir Yazgi, Gaza City, Jerusalem, Hamas, Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, Hezbollah, Meretz Party, Popular Resistance Committee, Russia, United States, Winogr

  JERUSALEM, Jan. 16 -- A hawkish faction of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition pulled out of his government Wednesday following the start of talks this week over how to resolve the most vexing issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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• 20 Palestinians, Mostly Fighters, Killed in Israeli Raids

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Palestinians, Mostly, Fighters, Killed, Israeli, Raids, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, George W Bush, West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmoud Zahar, Tzipi Livni, Ahmed Qurei, Gaza City, Jerusalem, Mark Regev, Noa Meir, Sderot, Taher Nunu, Fatah Organization, Israeli Defense Forces

  JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 -- Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters battled in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, leaving 20 Palestinians dead, a health official said, including a son of a senior leader of Hamas, the armed Islamic movement that controls the territory.

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• 60 Gazans Killed in Incursion By Israel

  Published: March 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gazans, Killed, Incursion, Israel, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Tariq Dardona, Ashkelon, Mark Regev, Ah 64 Apache Helicopter, Condoleezza Rice, David Baker, Ehud Olmert, Gaza City, Ismail Haniyeh, Jabalia, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Mustafa Barghouti, Riyad Al Malki, Palesti

  JERUSALEM, March 1 -- The Israeli military launched a major operation against Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing 60 people -- about half of them civilians -- and sending in a large contingent of ground troops to stop rockets streaming daily out of the territory into southern Is...

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• Gunman Kills Eight at Seminary in Jerusalem

  Published: March 7, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gunman, Kills, Eight, Seminary, Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Israel, Moshe Harel, Ehud Olmert, Gaza City, George W Bush, West Bank, Hezbollah, Ak 47 Assault Rifle, Aharon Franco, Baruch Goldstein, Chaim Schur, Condoleezza Rice, Damascus, Hebron, Hillary Zaken, Imad Mugniyah

  JERUSALEM, March 6 -- A gunman walked into a prominent Jewish seminary in Jerusalem on Thursday evening and opened fire on students as they read in the library, killing eight and wounding nine in one of the deadliest attacks on Israeli civilians in years.

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• Gaza Fighters Attack Fuel Depot Inside Israel

  Published: April 10, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gaza, Fighters, Attack, Fuel, Depot, Inside, Israel, Gaza Strip, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Hamas, Arye Mekel, Gaza City, European Union, West Bank, Fatah Organization, Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinian National Auth

  JERUSALEM, April 9 -- Palestinian gunmen raided a fuel terminal on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza on Wednesday, killing two Israeli civilians and sparking reprisal attacks that left at least seven Palestinians dead.

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• Fighting Breaks Out in Gaza Strip

  Published: April 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fighting, Breaks, Out, Gaza, Strip, Israel, Hamas, Gaza Strip, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Tzipi Livni, Israeli Defense Forces, United States, Cairo, David Baker, Jimmy Carter, Stephen Hadley, Fatah Organization, Gaza City, Palestinian National Authority, Reuters Group Plc, United

  JERUSALEM, April 16 -- Eighteen Palestinians -- many of them civilians -- and three Israeli soldiers were killed Wednesday during fierce clashes in the Gaza Strip, marking the deadliest day of fighting in more than a month.

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