... reign. The Palestinian national movement is riven with geographic and political divisions between Hamas (itself divided) and Fatah (even more divided). There is little chance of creating a united Palestinian house that can take control of the guns and ...

... and, notwithstanding their formulaic criticisms of Israel, have explicitly blamed Hamas for the current violence. PLO and Fatah officials fault Hamas for the deaths in Gaza, and an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nimr Hammad, told the ...

... elections three years ago. It has ruled the impoverished territory of 1.4 million people since seizing control from the rival Fatah forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in June 2007. Israel occupied Gaza for 38 years before pulling out thousands ...

... Egypt have kept virtually sealed since the militant group staged a violent takeover of Gaza in 2007 from forces of the rival Fatah faction, headed by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The comment by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki ...

... national unity government," Fayyad said. Hamas officials in Gaza were cool to the idea of reconciliation talks with Abbas' Fatah movement. And while eight Syria-based radical Palestinian factions, including Hamas, called for talks, they also said ...

... orders from Arafat. The notes say that Al-Jawary also worked as a document forger for the PLO and Hawari. Hawari, a senior Fatah security official and Arafat confidant, "inherited" elements of Black September, according to the CIA notes. Declassified ...

... President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters he will not hold reconciliation talks with Hamas as long as the militant group rejects his authority. The two sides have been divided ever since Hamas seized Gaza. Abbas' Fatah rules the West Bank.

... forcibly seized control of Gaza from the rival Fatah faction in June. But the Islamic militant ... by the Palestinian Authority headed by Fatah, Israel and European monitors. Hamas ... moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads Fatah. "We have to commit to the standing ...

... help form a new, unified Palestinian government that can govern both the West Bank and Gaza. Gaza is controlled by the Islamic militant Hamas, while the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement has a stronghold in the West Bank.

... stripper. (The players were later declared innocent by state prosecutors.) Hamas both mocked and reached out to its defeated Fatah rivals on its first day in full control of Gaza. Retired "Price Is Right" host Bob Barker won his 19th Daytime Emmy. In ...