Egypt tells Israel Gaza incursion a 'dangerous escalation'
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Egypt told Israel its continuing military operations in Gaza were a dangerous escalation of the Middle East situation, while hundreds of students and lawyers demonstrated in the capital against the raids in which more than 70 Palestinians have been killed.
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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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Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr warned on Wednesday that factional violence in Gaza could spread to the West Bank if nothing is done, urging the international community to provide financial aid.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak visited Egypt on Wednesday to discuss Israeli allegations that Egypt was doing too little to prevent arms smuggling to the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Egyptian forces and Hamas police exchanged fire across the Gaza-Egypt border Monday, and defiant Hamas leaders warned they would not permit Gaza's resealed frontier to remain closed for long.
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Tens of thousands pour into Egypt from Gaza after militants blow up part of border wall
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Egyptian forces fired water cannons at Palestinians trying to force their way across the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday and warned over loudspeakers the border would close at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), witnesses 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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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt started to close its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday but Palestinian militants bulldozed a new opening in a challenge to Cairo and Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run territory.
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A senior Israeli official yesterday accused Egypt of failing to halt arms smuggling into Gaza, thus bolstering the militant group Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian leadership supported by the United States.
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The Gaza border crisis caused another sharp flap Thursday in Egyptian-Israeli relations, with Egypt angrily accusing Israel of trying to dump all responsibility for the troubled Gaza Strip in its lap.
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Israel is expected to ask Egypt Wednesday to deploy troops deep in the Sinai to combat arms smuggling, and not to suffice with enhancing its patrols along its border with the Gaza Strip.
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Egypt says it will not use force to return Palestinians who crossed from Gaza after the border was breached.
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Israel pushed more forces into Gaza today after the deadliest day in more than two years in the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened Thursday to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip if fighters continue using the Palestinian territory for rocket attacks on southern Israel. Earlier in the day, Israeli troops supported by tanks, artillery and fighter...
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The US urges Egypt to secure its border with the Gaza Strip, after thousands of Palestinians flooded across it.
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Israel threatened to use force to topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders on Monday following a surge of cross-border rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group.