Hamas rockets fall, Israel eyes escalation
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Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel dismisses early rocket fire as hiccups but warns it will retaliate if  attacked by Palestinian militants
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JERUSALEM, May 27 â An Israeli man died from a Qassam rocket launched from Gaza today, andIsraelâs Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to continue Israelâs military assault on Hamas as an effort to stop the rocket fire, warning that âno one involved in terror is immune.â.
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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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Olmert's government is under pressure to respond to rocket fire, but a harsh strike could sink fragile peace hopes
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel stepped up airstrikes in its Gaza offensive, killing an Islamic Jihad leader and bringing to 75 the number of Palestinians killed in the operation to end rocket fire on Israeli towns.    With troops and tanks on Tuesday holding a buffer zone in northern Gaza designed to move its towns out of Palestinian rocket range, Israel sent its air force to kill a top militant - Bashir Aldabash, 40...
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn yesterday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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ZIKKIM, Israel  - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded some 30 soldiers in Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory.
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Militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza bombarded southern Israel with rockets Thursday and Israel pounded back with air and ground fire, the latest spate of violence that has pushed peace efforts to the sidelines.
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GAZA CITY -- Two Hamas militants were killed when an explosion ripped through their vehicle in Gaza City yesterday in an Israeli airstrike, the second in as many days. Hamas threatened to retaliate with suicide bombings inside Israel. As in previous days, Palestinians fired several rockets and mortars at Jewish settlements in Gaza and towns just outside the fence yesterday. ...
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An Israeli missile strike killed at least  two Hamas gunmen in Gaza City Monday, a day after a top  commander of the Islamic militant group was killed in a similar  attack, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - Militants in Gaza fired a rocket into Israel on Friday and Israeli troops killed a Palestinian in the West Bank, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed hope for a shaky 5-day truce.
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Israel has killed Hamas&#39;s top bomb and rocket-maker in Gaza ahead of a Knesset vote on a pull-out from the area. Adnan al-Ghoul died when an Israeli missile hit his car, witnesses said.
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Israel launched airstrikes against militants firing rockets from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and vowed to maintain the siege of the territory until its Hamas rulers halt attacks
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GAZA CITY -- An Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a car traveling in the Gaza Strip late yesterday, killing a senior Hamas commander who was among the government's most-wanted fugitives -- the latest in a series of Israeli assassinations that have weakened the militant group.
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depends on whether they can rein in militants, who killed five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday. drew missile strikes in a swift reprisal and dimmed hopes for an end to decades of conflict in the post-Arafat era.
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Israel says its largest incursion in the Gaza Strip during four years of fighting is a victory. But Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, isn&#39;t admitting defeat.