Israel flattens Hamas ministry in Gaza Strip
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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.
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Hamas fighters bombarded a major security compound belonging to the rival Fatah group in Gaza City on Thursday as the Islamist movement appeared to tighten its grip on the territory in fierce factional fighting.
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Israel began restricting fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ostensibly in retaliation for rocket attacks on its territory, according to European Union and Palestinian sources.
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Israel seized a minister in Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet on Saturday and pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip as part of an expanded campaign against the ruling Islamist group.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least five fighters, and seized a Palestinian cabinet minister.
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Israel plans to tighten a financial clampdown on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that would choke off all but humanitarian and basic supplies, senior Israeli and Western officials said on Tuesday.
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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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An Israeli military court on Wednesday ordered the release of the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking Hamas official rounded up in an Israeli crackdown against the militant group, his lawyer said.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn yesterday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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A top Israeli defense official said Thursday that Israel wants to relinquish all responsibility for the Gaza Strip, including the supply of electricity and water, now that the territory's southern border with Egypt has been opened.
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Israel's Security Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" Wednesday, Israeli radio stations reported.
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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.
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Israel began reducing fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip on Sunday under new economic sanctions to punish the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave for rocket fire on Israeli towns.
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Israel sought to put an end to a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza, sending its air force Friday against a symbol of Hamas power in the heart of Gaza City and simultaneously choking off shipments of fuel and food across its border with the strip.
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Israel unleashed a new round of airstrikes on Gaza and arrested a second Hamas member of the Palestinian unity government in the West Bank on Saturday, Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
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Israel closed all border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Friday, cutting off at least one aid shipment, and bombed the empty Interior Ministry building of the Palestinian Authority.