Israeli forces push deeper into Lebanon
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Backed by tanks, Israeli troops battled their way to a key Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon on Monday, seizing a hilltop in heavy fighting and capturing two guerrillas. The U.S. completed its evacuation of 12,000 Americans and said it would switch to bringing in humanitarian aid.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops seized more territory inside a Palestinian refugee camp in pitched battles on Tuesday against al Qaeda-inspired militants, security sources said.
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Israeli troops pushed deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp Thursday, a first in four years of fighting, after a Palestinian rocket killed two preschoolers in an Israeli border town.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip Oct. 2, 2004 - More troops poured into the Gaza Strip on Saturday as Israel expanded its offensive to counter Palestinian rocket fire, one of the largest incursions in four years of fighting.
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Israeli troops pushed deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday, a first in four years of fighting, after a Palestinian rocket killed two preschoolers in an Israeli border town.
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Dozens of Israeli tanks pushed deep into the Gaza Strip and aircraft fired missiles at Palestinian militants Thursday, killing eight people in heavy fighting that mirrored the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
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Israel unleashed a furious military campaign on Lebanon&#039;s main airport, highways, military bases and other targets Thursday, retaliating for scores of Hezbollah guerrilla rockets that rained down on Israel and reached as far as Haifa, its third-largest city, for the first time.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops advanced towards fortified positions of Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday in what political sources said was the start of a final assault to root out the gunmen.
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While Israel&#39;s military, purportedly on its way to get out of the Gaza Strip, is getting deeper and deeper into it, exercising its long terrorist tradition of forcing the civilian population
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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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Hizbollah fired more rockets into Israel   on Wednesday than on any previous day of the 22-day-old war,   killing an Israeli and wounding 123, after helicopter-borne   commandos launched Israel's deepest raid into Lebanon.
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Lebanese infantry battled Islamic militants at close range Sunday, moving deep into a besieged Palestinian refugee camp and hoisting Lebanon's red-and-white flag atop newly taken buildings, security officials and witnesses said.
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Israel's army chief said Saturday that Israel has tripled the number of forces in Lebanon as part of its expanded ground offensive and will keep fighting until a cease-fire is implemented.
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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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Israeli troops battled Hizbollah   guerrillas across southern Lebanon on Sunday and air strikes   battered Beirut's suburbs as the Israeli army pressed on with   its offensive in the hours until a U.N.-brokered truce begins.
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Israel grabbed strategic high ground in south Lebanon on Thursday but delayed a major push northward, as diplomats cited progress toward agreement on a U.N. cease-fire resolution that could soon go to a vote.
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The Israeli army said on Tuesday it  could complete a pullout from southern Lebanon within a few  days as the United Nations said the number of peacekeepers in  the devastated country had reached 5,000.