Israel closes Gaza border
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Move comes after weeks of clashes between Israeli forces and militants
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Israel has decided to scale back its bloody two-week military operation in northern Gaza, its largest operation there in four years of fighting.
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Israel announced on Friday it was winding down its 17-day deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon observed the army&#39;s warning that staying more than that in crowded Palestinian areas was too risky.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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Israel orders closure of crossings, preventing people going out and UN trucks from delivering food aid
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Israel says it will erect a fence along the Egypt border to stop possible infiltration by Palestinian militants.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 25 -- Egyptian security forces deployed Friday with barbed wire, water cannon and tasers to close their country's breached border with Gaza, shutting down a two-day Palestinian exodus from Gaza after Palestinian fighters blew up the border wall.
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Gaza's main power plant shut down completely on Sunday after Israel closed the borders of the Hamas-controlled territory and blocked fuel supplies, Palestinian officials said.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest offensives in four years of conflict that began 16 days ago and that has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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Israeli air strikes killed four Palestinian militants on Friday in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, as Egyptian forces began closing the severed border, curbing the stream of Gazans breaching the Israeli blockade.
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Israel began scaling back its 17 day offensive in the Gaza Strip today after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the armyâs warning that an extended stay is too risky and the US called for a quick withdrawal.
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Gaza City awoke Monday to shuttered bread shops and gas stations, prompting fears of a humanitarian crisis as Israel pressed ahead with efforts to stop Palestinian rocket fire, refusing to reopen crossings or allow in crucial fuel supplies.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from leaving the Hamas-controlled territory in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
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Egypt will close the breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not try to prevent it, a senior Hamas leader said after holding talks with Egyptian officials.
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The main power plant in Gaza begins shutting down due to fuel shortages caused by Israel's border closures.
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian forces began closing the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stemming the flow of Palestinians across the frontier breached by Hamas Islamists last month, witnesses said.