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Hamas, Jihad agree to renew truce after days of deadly clashes

By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies

Hamas forces and the rival Islamic Jihad group agreed overnight on Sunday to a renewed truce, bringing a tentative end to two days of deadly clashes, Army Radio reported.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri was quoted as saying Monday that the group's relationship with Islamic Jihad was strategic. The truce was brokered by the Popular Resistance Committees.

Gunmen from the two groyps on Sunday exchanged fire for a second day in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, leaving at least one person dead and 18 wounded, medics said.

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An Islamic Jihad official identified the dead man as a member of his group.

Hamas officials and residents said the clashes broke out after gunmen from Islamic Jihad tried to abduct a member of Hamas in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Hamas forces foiled the attempt and seized 15 members of Islamic Jihad, including its top commander in the town, they said.

Rafah residents reported hearing loud explosions in the town.

In recent weeks, tensions have repeatedly flared between the two groups, including over control of a mosque in southern Gaza.

On Saturday, clashes erupted between Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen, after an Islamic Jihad activist was stopped in the street by Hamas security forces. A 51-year-old woman was killed in an exchange of fire, and each side kidnapped members of the other group.

There was also fighting in Gaza City on Saturday between Hamas men and a large Fatah-affiliated clan. Two people were killed, including a 13-year old, and twenty were injured in those clashes.

The ruling Hamas and the much smaller Islamic Jihad have very similar ideologies, and in the past cooperated in attacks against Israel. However, since seizing control of Gaza by force in June, Hamas has insisted only members of its security force can carry weapons in public.

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1.	Now it`s Hamas and the Jihad	23:15	\|	Israeli	21/10/07

2.	Even art could not mimic islamist life(strife).	23:16	\|	akiva (zionist)	21/10/07

3.	A new civil war on the way?	23:16	\|	KUTW	21/10/07

4.	2Akiva(zionist) the custom of bringing virgins is actually an old	00:43	\|	lakshmi	22/10/07

5.	mosaad agents in disguise	01:07	\|	jj	22/10/07

6.	Business as usual in Gaza	01:20	\|	Dakkar	22/10/07

7.	jj - yeah right!	01:21	\|	ChanahS	22/10/07

8.	A typical day in hamastan	01:53	\|	Adrian de KLerk	22/10/07

9.	Round Two is about to start	01:56	\|	Adrian de Klerk	22/10/07

10.	Memo - Nik MIller to Ismail Haniyeh re: ceasefire	12:05	\|	Nik Miller	22/10/07

11.	LAKSHMMI .HOURIS in Islamic pradise,lots & lots of houris	12:34	\|	PETER S .M.	22/10/07

12.	lakshmi	13:21	\|	infidel	22/10/07

13.	Lakshmi #4	13:28	\|	H	22/10/07

14.	keep on shooting, don`t stop please !!	13:44	\|	Jean	22/10/07

15.	#2, akiva....	19:14	\|	Silvienne	22/10/07

16.	Sick people! Peace ? War! Peace? War!	04:28	\|	cristo	23/10/07

17.	Laksmi ,What Customs and tradition you are	04:42	\|	cristo	23/10/07

18.	Gaza is so green...............and clean..............of humanism	04:56	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/10/07

19.	Lakshmi you are way out of you league on this one	05:17	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/10/07

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