Israel wants to cut its Gaza links, official says
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defence minister said on Thursday.
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Israel's attorney general told the government on Monday it could not cut electrical power to the Gaza Strip as part of its sanctions against the Hamas controlled territory, although he did approve other measures.
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The government is considering linking the Gaza Strip to the Israeli railroad system as part of the disengagement plan, Itamar Yaar, deputy head of the National Security Council, said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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Israel's defense minister has ordered the temporary closure of all crossings into Gaza, cutting off supplies into the besieged strip in response to a slew of Palestinian rocket barrages at nearby Israeli towns, defense officials said Friday.
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Israel has stopped targeting Palestinian militants for death, Israeli security officials said early Wednesday, fulfilling a key Palestinian demand for a truce to end four years of violence.
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Israel would like to sever its  remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip  after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt,  a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday severed contact with the new Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, over an attack at a Gaza border crossing that killed six Israelis, saying it wanted to see what steps Abbas would take to crack down on militants before any further dealings with him.
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Israeli and Palestinian security officials have begun indirect contacts aimed at ending a major Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, but the claim was denied by the Palestinians.
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Israel is considering suspending contacts with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if his new unity government with Hamas does not meet international demands, Israeli officials said on Monday.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 19 -- Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday declared the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity" and said it would begin cutting electricity and fuel to the Hamas-run territory in an effort to stop near-daily rocket fire into Israel.
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Israel's military is to cut off electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to continued rocket attacks from Hamas.
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Israel, in a policy change, would be willing to co-ordinate a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip if Palestinian authorities cracked down on militant groups, an Israeli official said today.
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority are trying to work out a deal to end the army's Gaza offensive in return for stopping militants firing rockets into the Jewish state, Israeli security sources said Tuesday.
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Israel is planning cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza to try to halt rocket attacks, officials say.
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Israel began cutting electrical power to the Gaza Strip as part of a plan to sever economic ties with the territory, an Israeli defense official said on Friday.