No Reprieve in Sight for Besieged Gaza
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip woke Monday to a fifth day of a huge Israeli offensive with army commanders talking of a weeks-long operation.
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A shaky cease-fire took effect on Monday between Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah after days of heavy fighting pushed the Gaza Strip to the brink of civil war.
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Arab nations demanded in a draft UN Security Council resolution yesterday that Israel immediately halt its incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, where fighting has left at least 65 Palestinians dead.
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GAZA STRIP - Israel&#39;s offensive in Gaza could continue for weeks, a senior military officer said after four more Palestinians were killed in a helicopter strike Monday.
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More than a thousand Palestinian pilgrims, including members of the militant Hamas group, were put in camps in the northern Sinai on Sunday until a dispute over how they will return to the Gaza Strip is resolved.
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The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in Gaza on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to increased rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's army will operate in the northern Gaza Strip until all Palestinian rocket fire against Israeli towns is halted, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said late Saturday in an interview on Israel Radio.    Sharon spoke as his forces ended the fourth day of an invasion in which 50 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed...
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A smuggling tunnel being dug by  Palestinians on the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed on Friday and  at least five people were trapped inside, witnesses in the Gaza  frontier town of Rafah said.
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The deadline set by hostage-takers holding a Briton in Iraq has passed without any further word from them.
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The Palestinian quest for an independent state is on the verge of collapse after Hamas declares Islamic rule in Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM, June 11 -- Fatah and Hamas gunmen resumed intense street fighting Monday in the Gaza Strip after Egyptian efforts to mediate a new cease-fire failed to draw scores of masked gunmen off the streets.
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Little construction has taken place since Israeli soldiers and settlers pulled out of the Gaza Strip in summer 2005.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview published on Saturday. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 20 -- Gaza's only power plant ceased operating in the Gaza Strip on Sunday night, plunging much of the territory of 1.5 million Palestinians into darkness and winter cold. Palestinian officials said a three-day-old Israeli blockade had exhausted the fuel needed to run the plant.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview with an Egyptian newspaper. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s massacre in the Gaza Strip is nominated for a dragging continuous phase. The reason is not because the short-range Al-Qassam rockets are thumping targets inside the Hebrew State and impeding
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There is an air of relief blowing in with the hot sea breeze over the Gaza Strip these days, but it's one salted with worry that factional warfare which ended in victory for Hamas two weeks ago could swiftly return.