Israel Begins to Pull Troops in Gaza, Scaling Back Offensive
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Israel said Friday that it had begun to redeploy troops in Gaza and remove some of them altogether as it scales back its 17-day military operation in the northern Gaza
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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as the Israeli army plans to pull out.
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Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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In an effort to shore up a shaky truce in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials said Monday that they are reducing their operations in the West Bank and had made it more difficult for field commanders to order arrest raids there.
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Israeli forces began leaving southern Lebanon on Sunday in the last phase of their withdrawal under a U.N. resolution to end a war with Hizbollah guerrillas, an Israeli security source said.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.
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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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Dubai, Oct. 16 (NNN): With the beginning of Muslim fasting month of Ramzan, Israeli troops are reported to have withdrawn completely from northern Gaza after a 16-day operation which saw the heaviest fighting there in four years.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave  the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of  northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed  the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four  years.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has agreed to scale back Israel&#39;s 2-week-old military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli news media reported Thursday night.
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Israel will sharply reduce its  military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response  to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end  attacks on Israelis.
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Israel announced on Friday it was sharply reducing its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end attacks on Israelis.
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Israel reversed course yesterday and said it might coordinate next year&#39;s Gaza Strip pullout with the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians crack down on militants, a sign that
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Israel launched on Wednesday its first   ground offensive in the Gaza Strip since leaving the territory   last year, stepping up pressure on Palestinian militants to   release an abducted soldier.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday all 8,200 Jewish settlers will be pulled out of the Gaza Strip starting next summer, and he ordered a troop withdrawal from a refugee camp - signaling that a bloody two-week offensive in northern Gaza could be easing.    Sharon said next year's settlement evacuation would be completed within 12 weeks despite opposition from settlers and their backers...
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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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GAZA CITY - Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip yesterday, following through on a promise to step up pressure on the territory's Hamas rulers after months of Palestinian rocket attacks.