Israel aims to choke off funds to Gaza
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Israel plans to tighten a financial clampdown on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that would choke off all but humanitarian and basic supplies, senior Israeli and Western officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel says it will allow some fuel and medicines into Gaza as its blockade is condemned abroad.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has closed all border crossings into Gaza, cutting off food and humanitarian supplies to the coastal strip in a bid to pressure its Hamas rulers to stop a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli towns, defense officials said Friday.
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The Palestinians&#039; Hamas-led government, nearly bankrupted by international sanctions, has resorted to bringing in cash in suitcases to help keep itself afloat. But given the government&#039;s crushing debt, a scolding from European border monitors and Israeli concerns the money could be used for violence, the tactic could fizzle out fast.
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THE price that Meir Rotenstein has paid for breaking ranks with his neighbours and cheering on Ariel Sharonâs plan to pull Israelis out of Gaza has been high.
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Israel on Sunday began transferring to the Palestinians some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds it had frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas while isolating Hamas.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to transfer several hundred million dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government, a measure designed to undercut Hamas Islamists controlling Gaza.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s chief of staff has said the aim of Israel&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan is to rule out a Palestinian state indefinitely.
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Israel has plans to build a security trench in the Gaza Strip that could demolish hundreds of Palestinian homes.
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Hamas-ruled Gaza will likely see little of the unprecedented $7.4 billion in aid promised to the Palestinians by the international community on Monday.
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The move suggests the sides were seeking to pull back from a potential showdown in the Gaza Strip, at least for now.
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Israel eased a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing in some food and fuel Tuesday after the UN warned that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend
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Israel reduced the flow of fuel to Hamas-controlled Gaza on Sunday, a move it vowed to take in response to "the incessant firing of rockets into Israel," an adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
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Gaza's children used to light colorful lanterns to mark Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. But this year, many parents can't afford those small $1 toys as the coastal strip sinks deeper into poverty amid an aid cutoff to punish the Hamas-led government.
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The country prepares to cut power to Gaza, hoping that residents will turn against Hamas.
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Israeli army raids target West Bank money changers, taking funds it says are intended for  militant groups.
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Israel has threatened to cut back fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip, putting visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice squarely in the middle of the two sidesâ latest faceoff.