Hamas rockets fall, Israel eyes escalation
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Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM - Israel was responsible for a car bomb that killed a top Hamas leader in Syria yesterday, Israeli security sources acknowledged, in an escalation in Israel&#39;s battle against the Islamic militant group.
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Israeli security officials say Israel plans to resume its campaign to kill Hamas leaders, after Tuesday&#39;s suicide bus bombings in the southern town of Beersheva that killed at least 16 people and wounded about 100 others.
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Israeli officials on Sunday reported overnight airstrikes hit three Hamas locations in Gaza and, hours later, a Qassam rocket fired by militants wounded two civilians in Israel.
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camp in what the army said was an open-ended operation to stop militants from firing rockets into southern Israel. Beersheba. Israel struck back on Tuesday, hitting a Hamas training camp and triggering vows of revenge.
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Strikes against rocket launch sites are first since Hamas took control last week.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel's attacks against militants in the Gaza Strip had led to a drop in rocket strikes from the territory and they would continue.
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Rocket fire from Gaza died down Sunday after a daybreak cease-fire, raising hopes for an end to five months of bloody destruction and a new opening toward peace talks.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas threatened revenge after an Israeli helicopter blew up a car on a busy Gaza City street, killing a Hamas militant who was involved in making and firing rockets at Israeli towns.    Six bystanders were wounded, two of them seriously, hospital officials said...
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An Israeli missile strike killed at least two Hamas gunmen in Gaza City Monday, a day after a top commander of the Islamic militant group was killed in a similar attack, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said.
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depends on whether they can rein in militants, who killed five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday. drew missile strikes in a swift reprisal and dimmed hopes for an end to decades of conflict in the post-Arafat era.
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Militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza bombarded southern Israel with rockets Thursday and Israel pounded back with air and ground fire
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Israeli attacks killed eight Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Israel
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A Hamas rocket attack from Gaza killed a man in Israel on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged unlimited military action against the militant group, saying "no one involved in terror" would be immune.
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Widening its pursuit of Hamas beyond the occupied territories, Israel reached into Damascus Sunday, dealing a blow to both Hamas and Syria.
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Israeli missiles pounded Gaza on Friday, killing two Hamas militants and shaking the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, as Palestinian factions argued among themselves on whether to stop firing rockets into Israel.
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.