Israel seizes Hamas leaders in West Bank, bombs Gaza
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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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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israel killed five  Palestinian militants in a West Bank raid on Wednesday, keeping  up pressure on armed factions as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  plan for a partial pullout from occupied lands moved forward.
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Israeli forces have detained a senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing in the West Bank on during a night-time raid on his hideout, witnesses say.
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Israeli forces killed two Hamas commanders and wounded another member in an operation in the West Bank town of Hebron, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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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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Israel killed five Palestinian militants in a West Bank raid on Wednesday, keeping up pressure on armed factions as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for a partial pullout from occupied lands moved forward.
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In a statement, the Israeli army described those arrested as âsenior members of the Hamas terror organization.â
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Israeli troops kill three men from the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, in a raid into the Gaza Strip.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least four fighters, and seized a minister in Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet, stepping up a campaign against the ruling Islamists.
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A military leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas who was at the top of Israelâs most wanted list, has been killed in an air strike on Gaza City.
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Israeli forces arrest 18 people in a raid on the Palestinian military headquarters in Ramallah.
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The Israeli army announced it has arrested a Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Hebron, claiming he was planning for bomb attacks against Israelis.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the  Palestinian Islamic group Hamas on Wednesday, arresting a West  Bank leader held responsible for a twin suicide bus bombing  that killed 16 and killing two militants in Gaza air strikes.
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The Israeli army killed a Palestinian and arrested 17 militants Monday in raids across the West Bank, despite a decision by the military to scale back such operations in order to bolster a shaky truce with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli troops raided the Palestinian military headquarters early Wednesday and arrested 18 fugitives who had sought shelter there, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
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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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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.