NEW PALISTINIAN PARLIAMENT.
Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar (C) sits inside the Palestinian parliament in Gaza City on February 18, 2006. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told the new Hamas-dominated parliament that he would continue working towards a negotiated Middle East peace agreement while urging Israel and the international community not to "punish" voters for their democratic choice. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad). .
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Reports of negotiations between Hamas and Israel have angered Fatah officials, who charge the group is not authorized to hold such talks, officials say.
Mahmoud Abbas will visit Gaza for the first time in more than five years to try to heal the dispute between his Fatah Party and Hamas, officials said.
Israeli military doctors went to Gilad Shalit's home Wednesday after learning the soldier felt ill during his exchange for Palestinian prisoners a day earlier.
The Palestinian Hamas group holding an Israeli soldier for five years said Sunday he won't be released until Israel releases jailed Palestinians.
A Hamas official says the militant group will never recognize Israel as it would deprive future Palestinian generations of the right to "liberate the land."
Hamas is likely to crack down hard on radical Islamic splinter groups after the murder of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist, officials say.
A senior Hamas official has warned that talks with Israel over a prisoner exchange to free a captured Israeli soldier have collapsed.
Mahmoud Zahar, described as a strongman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, says doctors have not visited abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
A senior Hamas official says the Palestinian militant group has no intention of ending its rocket fire from Gaza into Israel.
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