Israeli forces push into Gaza Strip
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Israel launched on Wednesday its first   ground offensive in the Gaza Strip since leaving the territory   last year, stepping up pressure on Palestinian militants to   release an abducted soldier.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and troops have pushed into northern Gaza in a raid aimed at militants who have fired rockets at Israeli towns.
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Israel's largest and bloodiest offensive in Gaza in four years of conflict moved into its third week, with missile strikes killing six Palestinians and Israeli troops digging into the northern end of the crowded territory.
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EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip -- Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the first military action since Hamas militants took control.
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Israeli soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and armored personnel carriers, moved into Palestinian-controlled areas near the main Israel-Gaza cargo crossing on Tuesday, conducting house-to-house searches and arrests.
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JERUSALEM -- Backed by combat helicopters, Israeli troops and tanks pushed their way into a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least eight Palestinians and wounding scores of others, hospital officials said.
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The Israeli military sends tanks and troops into a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in a bid to end mortar attacks.
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A column of Israeli tanks surged into the  heart of the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on  Thursday as the army broadened its sweep for militants behind a  deadly rocket attack on an Israeli town.
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Israeli tanks and helicopters swept into the northern Gaza Strip early today, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas fighters as they were being trained on a soccer field.
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TEL AVIV -- Israeli forces took over a 5-mile-wide swath of the northern Gaza Strip yesterday and prepared for major operations against Palestinian groups that have been launching Qassam rockets at targets in southern Israel, signaling a sharp escalation in the conflict for which hard-liners on both sides have been pushing.
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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks pushed into the center of the largest Palestinian camp on Thursday, firing shells and machine guns, witnesses said.    It marked the first time in the past four years of fighting that Israeli troops reached the heart of the camp, a militant stronghold with hundreds of gunmen...
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Israel massed tanks and troops along Gaza&#039;s northern border early Monday, firing artillery and unleashing more airstrikes in a show of force after the prime minister ordered his army to &quot;do all it can&quot; to free an abducted soldier.
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Two armed Palestinians infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip early Monday, sparking a fierce gunbattle with troops in the area, the military said.
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Israeli tanks rumbled into the northern  Gaza Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks  described by front-running Palestinian presidential candidate  Mahmoud Abbas as useless.
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ISRAELI forces have mounted a new incursion into the south of the Gaza Strip, a military spokeswoman said. She said the Israeli forces went into the Rafah refugee camp, near the border with Egypt, to look
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A column of Israeli tanks surged into the heart of the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday as the army broadened its sweep for militants behind a deadly rocket attack on an Israeli town.
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Israeli tanks rumbled into the northern  Gaza Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks  described by front-running Palestinian presidential candidate  Mahmoud Abbas as achieving nothing.