Israel extends offensive in Gaza
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Israeli forces thrust into a town in north Gaza and kill a Hamas militant, as a Palestinian schoolgirl dies of her wounds.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Israel will expand its offensive in Gaza, to stop Palestinian terrorists from firing rockets into southern Israel.
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Following consultation with senior security officials Thursday afternoon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided to widen the IDF&#39;s operation in the northern Gaza Strip in response the increasing attacks generating from the area.
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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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Israel has been stepping up its military raids in the Gaza Strip with its troops killing 12 Palestinians in the past two days. The action comes as Palestinian presidential contenders campaign for the January 9th elections.
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Description: The ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said the operation will continue until Israeli settlements and nearby towns are no longer threatened by rocket fire from Palestinian militants.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Sheilah Kast talks with NPR&#39;s Julie McCarthy about Israel&#39;s ongoing offensive in the Gaza strip. Is really Prime Minister Ariel&#39;&#39;s around today called for an expansion of an army operation
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Israeli forces continued a major operation in Gaza on Thursday with tanks and armored vehicles to suppress rocket fire into Israel, and in the process killed seven Palestinians.
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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.
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Israeli forces continued a major operation in Gaza today with tanks and armored vehicles to suppress rocket fire into Israel, and in the process killed seven Palestinians.
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Israel has been stepping up its military raids in the Gaza Strip with its troops killing 12 Palestinians in the past two days. The action comes as Palestinian presidential contenders campaign for the January 9 elections.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said  Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern  Gaza, the army's biggest and deadliest offensive in more than  four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israel's prime minister on Wednesday   ordered the army to expand an offensive against the ruling   Palestinian movement Hamas after its armed wing fired a missile   from Gaza into a major Israeli city for the first time.
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Israel's prime minister says a military operation in Gaza will continue until Palestinian rocket attacks are stopped.
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The Israeli army killed nine Palestinians in Gaza yesterday as it poured its forces into the coastal strip, expanding a ground offensive intended to root out militants firing rockets into Israeli towns.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday he would push ahead with the army&#039;s widescale offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the fight to free an abducted soldier and stop militant rocket fire would last for a &quot;long time.&quot;
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed Sunday to expand Israel's deadliest offensive in Gaza in four years and to stay as long as needed to stop Palestinian rocket attacks, as the campaign continued, with Israeli aircraft blasting Palestinian militants.    An Israeli aircraft struck a group of Palestinian militants in Gaza City, killing two, just moments after they fired a rocket at Israel from the back of a donkey cart...