Forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas overran a Hamas ministry and sealed off the area around his compound on Sunday as the threat of violence hung over Gaza following the president’s call for new elections. Members of Abbas’s elite presidential guard, a near 4,000-strong, U.S.-backed force, took over the Hamas-run Agriculture Ministry and sent employees home, part of a move to secure a large area of downtown Gaza City where Abbas lives. Full Story
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