Israel Scales Back Gaza Offensive
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Israel began scaling back its 17 day offensive in the Gaza Strip today after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the armyâs warning that an extended stay is too risky and the US called for a quick withdrawal.
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The Israeli army pulled out of the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday, bringing to an end to its 3-day military operation in the area, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
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Israel struck back with missiles at Gaza  Strip militants Monday after five Israeli troops were killed in  a resurgence of violence that has dented hopes of peace after  Yasser Arafat's death.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces  out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest  offensives in four years of conflict, an incursion that began  16 days ago and has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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Israel's military has begun scaling back arrest raids aimed at Palestinian militants in the West Bank, security officials said Monday, in another move designed to help moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel began moving tanks and ground forces away from this refugee camp Friday, scaling back its bloodiest offensive in northern Gaza in more than four years of fighting.    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the pullback at the urging of Israeli military commanders, who argued the two-week offensive had played itself out, and after calls from the United States to wrap up the operation...
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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GAZA: Israeli troops pulled out a Gaza refugee camp after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a two-day raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
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GAZA CITY -- Israeli troops and tanks made their deepest thrust into the Gaza Strip in six months yesterday in a stepped-up campaign to halt a week-old barrage of Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli jets struck five targets in the coastal territory, wounding at least seven people.
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JERUSALEM - Israel is scaling back its army offensive in northern Gaza, officials said Friday, as an air raid killed a Palestinian man near the Jebaliya refugee camp.
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Diplomatic efforts intensified on  Tuesday to end a massive Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip  that has killed 68 Palestinians, as the Jewish state faced  calls for restraint from its U.S. ally.
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Israel sought to put an end to a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza, sending its air force Friday against a symbol of Hamas power in the heart of Gaza City and simultaneously choking off shipments of fuel and food across its border with the strip.
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza  refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians,  including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it  launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish  settlements.
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Israel announced on Friday it was winding down its 17-day deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon observed the army&#39;s warning that staying more than that in crowded Palestinian areas was too risky.
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Israel's army received approval Monday to broaden its ground operations against Gaza Strip militants who have been barraging Israeli border towns with deadly rocket fire, military officials said.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the pullback at the urging of Israeli military commanders, who argued the two-week offensive had played itself out, and after calls from the United States to wrap up the operation...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered a redeployment of Israeli troops, away from densely populated areas of the northern Gaza Strip.