Israel pounds Gaza, arrests Palestinian minister
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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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Israeli tanks battling Palestinian gunmen  shelled a town in the central Gaza Strip early on Tuesday,  Palestinian security sources said.
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Gunmen fired mortar bombs at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's office in Gaza on Sunday after Abbas forces took over two ministries run by the ruling Hamas movement, which has dismissed his call for new elections.
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Gunmen fired on the offices of the Palestinian prime minister in the Gaza Strip on Monday, disrupting a cabinet meeting just hours after Egyptian officials helped mediate a truce between rival factions.
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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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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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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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Israeli troops in the West Bank arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members early Thursday, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors &#151; pressing forward with an offensive against the Islamic militant group.
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Israel's air force pounded the Gaza Strip early on Saturday hours after the Islamist group and other militants signaled softer terms for ending cross-border rocket salvoes.
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Palestinian gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade into Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's Gaza home on Tuesday, causing damage but no injury as factional fighting raged for a fourth day, officials said.
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Israeli tanks and helicopters raided the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing the militant son of a Hamas leader and 10 other Palestinians.
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Israel seized Hamas cabinet ministers in   the occupied West Bank on Thursday as it prepared to broaden a   military offensive into the northern Gaza Strip, pressuring   Palestinian militants to release a kidnapped soldier.
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Top Israeli Cabinet ministers declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday, a move likely to cloud Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to the region on a peacemaking mission
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Israel killed Hamas&#39;s top bomb and rocket maker in Gaza and launched a missile strike on the home of another leading militant on Friday in the run-up to a key parliamentary
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Israel has been stepping up its military raids in the Gaza Strip with its troops killing 12 Palestinians in the past two days. The action comes as Palestinian presidential contenders campaign for the January 9 elections.
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Palestinian gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's Gaza home on Tuesday, damaging the building, but he was unharmed as factional fighting raged for a fourth day, officials said.
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Israel on Wednesday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest-ranking of more than 30 officials in the Hamas-led government jailed as part of a crackdown on the Islamic militant group.