Army briefly enters Rafah
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IDF soldiers launched a brief incursion into the outskirts of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in what officials described as an operation against the area&#39;s terror infrastructure.
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A small Israeli ground force entered the southern Gaza Strip at dawn on Friday, the army and local residents said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - About 150 Palestinian pilgrims returning from Mecca entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a border-crossing dispute left about 2,000 of them stranded in Egypt for days, witnesses said.
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Gaza is a small place, and news spread quickly Wednesday that the border fence was knocked down before dawn. Pretty soon, I was caught up in a traffic jam as people raced to Rafah in buses, cars, motorcycles. Some even rode bicycles and donkey carts.
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The IDF denied claims that it had prevented the first batch of Palestinian security officials from crossing via the Rafah terminal crossing into Egypt on Saturday where they are to undergo military training in preparation for the planned disengagement
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Israeli troops entered a southern Gaza  town late on Wednesday in what the army called a search for  firing posts used by Palestinian militants, hours after gunmen  launched rockets toward nearby Jewish settlements.
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NABLUS, West Bank, Jan. 3 -- Israeli forces launched military operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank early Thursday, hours before a Katyusha rocket fired from Gaza crashed down harmlessly near the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
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between the Gaza town of Rafah and nearby Egypt, witnesses from Rafah said on Friday. Ambulances given clearance by Israeli forces rushed to the scene and rescue workers extracted two men, witnesses and medics said.
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Guardian correspondent Rory McCarthy reports from the Rafah border, where thousands of Palestinians are crossing the border after blowing up a wall dividing them from  Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce during the Israeli blockade
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Palestinian police began deploying in southern Gaza on Thursday, Israeli security officials said. The deployment was set for Thursday morning but was delayed for technical reasons.
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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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Gazans pour into Egypt after gunmen destroy most of the wall dividing the town of Rafah.
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War tourists visit 'Katyusha trail' to understand Israel's latest battle with Hizbullah.
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The mainstream Fatah movementcondemned on Thursday escalated Israeli military operations in theGaza Strip. Fatah said in a leaflet the escalated military operations in thenorthern
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - About 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims who had been stranded in Egypt en route from Mecca entered the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday in defiance of Israeli demands, witnesses said.
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Shouts of joy from excited schoolboys greeted the arrival of an Israeli convoy on its entry to a Palestinian town where visitors from the Jewish state are usually soldiers searching for militants.
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JERUSALEM  - A large-scale Israeli army incursion was still going on before dawn in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli military source told AFP.