It saw the Gaza Strip fall to the militant Hamas movement in an election in 2006.
An official of the militant Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip praised the current attack.
That calm has not extended to Gaza, which is run by the militant Islamic Hamas movement.
The charity categorically denies it's helping to fund the Hamas movement behind the banner of humanitarian aid.
This week Khaled Meshal, the head of the Palestinians' ruling Hamas movement, seemed to soften slightly his stance on Israel.
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On the contrary, we demand of the Hamas movement not to recognize Israel, because the Fatah movement does not recognize Israel even today.
NPR's Linda Gradstein in the West Bank city of Ramala, where a government headed by the militant Hamas movement is being sworn in today.
The Islamist Hamas movement, which governs Gaza, has condemned the attack.
The UN agency which organises Gaza's marathon has cancelled the event, blaming the refusal of the territory's governing Islamist Hamas movement to allow women to run.
We do not know if the mainstream Fatah movement will be forced to form a governing coalition with the more radical (and often rejectionist) Hamas movement.
Mr Abbas was much criticised by many Palestinians for remaining on the sidelines of the conflict between the militant Hamas movement and Israel earlier this month in Gaza.
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After Arafat's death in 2004, security reform returned to the agenda, but was dropped again after the Islamist Hamas movement defeated Mr Abbas's party, Fatah, in parliamentary elections in 2006.
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Bassem al-Ashqar, who belonged to the radical Hamas movement, and was killed in a firefight with troops trying to detain him, military officials said.
And I want to say for the thousandth time, in my own name and in the name of all of my fellow members of the Fatah movement: We do not demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel.
The move, officially in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, was also meant to bolster the reputation of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose government is locked in a power struggle with the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip.
The Rafah Crossing essentially has been closed since June when the Hamas political movement seized control of Gaza.
On September 3rd, radical Palestinian groups, including the Islamic movement Hamas and the al-Aqsa Brigades, which are linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, rejected a call by the Palestinians' new interior minister, Abdul Razek Yahiya, to replace the armed struggle with peaceful means of resistance.
The political leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, does not want to stand for re-election this year, the movement says.
Reports have suggested the Hamas commander was in Dubai to buy weapons for the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas.
Israel and Egypt tightened a blockade of Gaza after the Islamist movement Hamas took power there in 2007.
It has also criticized Syria for its ties to Iran, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
Rantissi took over the leadership of the militant Islamic movement Hamas in Gaza after the killing of the group's spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in March.
Mrs Merkel has spoken of her commitment to helping resolve the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, but the Islamist militant movement Hamas has accused her of ignoring Israeli actions in Gaza.
"Except for a slight change in tone, Syrian policies have not changed, " said foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, criticising Syria's connections with the Palestinian movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah.
The Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza, has lashed out at the decision as "shameful and irresponsible", and posters saying "to the trash heap of history, you traitor, Mahmoud Abbas" have appeared in the Strip.
Gaza and Hamas, a movement that the United States considers a terrorist organisation, will be the elephants not in the room when Mr Obama meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who only has limited authority in the West Bank.
It is interesting to note that UNESCO today recognized and admitted "Palestine" as a member state despite the governance of the annihilationist Islamic movement Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority which continues to incite violence against Jews in media and textbooks.
And it says that Hamas, a terrorist movement, makes little distinction between security and civilian matters.
Eight days of round-the-clock warfare followed between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian movement that controls Gaza.
For instance, they always say that the Fatah movement wants Hamas to recognize Israel.
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