Israel Winds Down Gaza Military Operation
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel scaled back its 17-day offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the army's warning that a long stay in crowded Palestinian areas is too risky and the United States called for a quick Israeli pullout.    Sharon's decision came just hours after he told legislators Thursday that "Operation Days of Penitence," meant to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities, would continue and even be expanded...
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza  refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians,  including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it  launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish  settlements.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest offensives in four years of conflict that began 16 days ago and that has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon early on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under a ceasefire to end a war with Hizbollah guerrillas, Israeli military sources said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday gave the go ahead to Israeli forces to withdraw from a teeming refugee camp and other heavily populated areas in northern Gaza, media reports said.
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JERUSALEM : Israel scaled back its vast operation in northern Gaza despite the deaths of four more Palestinians as tens of thousands of Muslims joined the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at Jerusalem&#39;s Al Aqsa mosque.
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JABALYA, Gaza Strip  - Israel pulled most of its  forces out of the northern Gaza Strip Saturday after a four-day  incursion it said was staged to halt Palestinian rocket attacks  on southern Israeli towns.
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Israel said Friday it was easing a  crushing offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians  since tanks rumbled into northern Gaza 16 days ago to stop  militants from launching cross-border rocket attacks.
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The Israeli army sealed off Gaza Strip Wednesday by shutting down Erez Crossing and the Industrial Zone and prevented Palestinians from leaving.
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Israeli forces pulled out of the Gaza   militant stronghold of Shijaiya early on Thursday after a   six-day raid, Palestinian residents said.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 -- The Israeli government agreed late Saturday to cease military operations in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a pledge by Palestinian armed groups to stop firing rockets into southern Israel, a tentative deal that leaders on both sides said could end months of violence in and...
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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as the Israeli army plans to pull out.
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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 said today that it had begun to scale back its 17-day military operation into the northern Gaza Strip after the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians, but Gaza
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Israel dismissed a group of reservist  military officers on Sunday who threatened they would disobey  an order to evacuate Jewish settlements under a Gaza pullout  plan, one of the officers said.
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Israel is keeping some army units in the Gaza Strip after completing a 17-day operation to stop Palestinian rocket attacks, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.
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Israel indicated yesterday it would scale back groundforces in some of the most densely populated areas of northern Gaza as the US Administration publicly called on it to end