Sharon vows to step up assault on Gaza strip as death toll rises
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Ariel Sharon said yesterday that an assault on the Gaza strip that has claimed more than 60 lives and injured 250 people - the bloodiest of the intifada - will be expanded until it puts an end to Hamas rocket strikes against Israel.
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TEL AVIV  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he would press ahead with his Gaza disengagement plan despite a vote by his Likud party a day earlier blocking efforts to broaden the governing coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed yesterday not to yield to pressure by Jewish settlers to give up his plan to withdraw soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that Israel was strengthening its military presence in the northern Gaza Strip.
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Israel has escalated its military offensive in Gaza with an air strike on a militant stronghold that killed a senior Hamas leader.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, yesterday vowed to widen the fight against Hamas militants with fresh airstrikes after a Hamas rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli.
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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more  makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a  week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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JERUSALEM: Israel said Monday it expects an upsurge in Palestinian attacks ahead of its Gaza withdrawal, as the US insisted the pullout should be consistent with the international &quot;road map&quot; for peace.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Monday that Israel would not carry out disengagement under fire and promised that the army would respond with severity to continued attacks on Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today pledged to escalate a broad Israeli offensive into the northern Gaza Strip, saying troops will remain in the area until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted.
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ISRAELI prime minister Ariel Sharon yesterday warned that far-right elements could push the country into a civil war if they continue with heated rhetoric in opposition to his plan for a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on  Thursday to press on with his plan to pull Israeli settlers and  soldiers out of the Gaza Strip despite his party's rejection of  a partnership with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said the ongoing military raid of northern Gaza, which has already killed 56 Palestinians, should be expanded.
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Israeli air strikes killed five  Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday as the Palestinian death toll  rose to 100 in a 16-day-old army offensive aimed at crushing  militants behind rocket salvoes into Israel.
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Israel intends to step up a quick reaction system to combat Palestinian rocket attacks at Israeli targets, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet Sunday.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today said he has ordered the army to step up its war on Palestinian militants ahead of a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stepped up efforts on Friday to overcome resistance in the ranks of his right-wing Likud party to an enlarged government coalition with the centre-left Labour, ahead of a decisive party meeting.