Israel attacks Gaza; contacts new Abbas govt
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Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel stepped up its campaign against Hamas Islamists on Saturday, killing at least five fighters in the Gaza Strip in a wave of air strikes and seizing a Palestinian cabinet minister in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli tanks battling Palestinian gunmen shelled a town in the central Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza  on Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against  militants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse  internal resistance to his plan for withdrawing from some  occupied land.
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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more  makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a  week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip -- Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the first military action since Hamas militants took control.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to discuss selective security amnesties designed to shore up his West Bank administration against rival Hamas Islamists.
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Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army jeep in Gaza on Wednesday, killing a Jewish settler, wounding three soldiers and challenging new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's opposition to attacks on Israeli targets.
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Palestinian militants fired homemade rockets at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and Israeli media reported that one landed near the home of Israel&#039;s defense minister.
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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested the second Hamas cabinet minister in less than a week.
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Palestinian militants angry over Yasser  Arafat's death attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip  on Thursday in what they said signaled the start of a new round  of clashes against Israel.
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In an escalation of violence today, Israel attacked rocket launchers in Gaza and clashed with Palestinian militants.
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Israeli president aims to shore up Abbas in wake of Hamas taking Gaza Strip.
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Israel bombed a series of Hamas buildings and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister.
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Israel carried out an air strike near the Gaza residence of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Friday but insisted he was not the target.
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Gaza militants struck the border with  Israel and launched barrages of rockets into the Jewish state  on Wednesday, defying calls for a halt to attacks from the  frontrunner to succeed Yasser Arafat.