Five killed in Israeli offensive in Gaza
23411
Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops today in an operation against rocket launchers in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and Palestinian medics said
121061
The Israeli army killed six Palestinians  in Gaza on Friday as it poured soldiers into the coastal strip,  expanding a ground offensive intended to root out militants  firing rockets into Israeli towns.
738303
At least five Palestinians have been killed and several homes demolished in a raid by Israeli troops on southern Gaza in response to mortar attacks by militants, witnesses said.
614126
Israel struck back with missiles at Gaza  Strip militants Monday after five Israeli troops were killed in  a resurgence of violence that has dented hopes of peace after  Yasser Arafat's death.
501114
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.
416297
An Israeli air strike on a northern Gaza  refugee camp killed at least four Palestinian militants on  Monday, the fifth day of one of Israel's bloodiest offensives  in Gaza in four years of conflict.
307085
Five Palestinians and three Israelis, including a soldier, were killed in an explosion of violence in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after Israeli combat helicopters launched a wave of air strikes on the territory.
605620
Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants in gun battles on Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
228678
JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces killed five Palestinians yesterday in separate actions in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said, as militants fired several homemade Kassam rockets into southern Israel.
530433
Israel&#39;s military offensive continues in Gaza, despite an appeal from Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia for calm. More than 45 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed in four days of bloodshed.
765409
Israeli forces launched the sixth day of a  massive offensive in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday with an  air strike that killed a Palestinian militant and wounded two  others in Jabalya refugee camp.
390745
GAZA CITY, 15 October 2004 - Israeli forces killed five more Palestinians, including a 70-year-old man, in two separate air raids in the Gaza Strip early yesterday.
39239
Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Hamas militants, and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister in the West Bank as Gaza militants fired more rockets into Israel.
419476
Five Palestinians were killed and other seven injured today at dawn in an Israeli air raid carried out by one Israeli helicopter at the house of a leading figure from the Islamic resistance movement ( Hamas) in al-Shuja&#39;eya quarters to the east of Gaza.
131304
JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip -- Israel widened its offensive in the Gaza Strip yesterday, as troops killed nine Palestinians, bringing the five-day death toll to 57 in the largest operation in Gaza since fighting began four years ago.
173241
Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants in gun battles Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
758485
Israeli troops killed five Palestinians Thursday as tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip in what the army called a raid to root out militants behind mortar and rocket fire on Jewish settlements.