Israel Says Will Scale Back Gaza Offensive
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JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip  - Israel said on  Friday it was easing a crushing offensive that has killed more  than 100 Palestinians since tanks rumbled into northern Gaza 16  days ago to stop cross-border rocket attacks.
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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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Israeli forces pulled back on Thursday after a raid into the northern Gaza Strip a day earlier in which troops killed 11 people in clashes with local gunmen and prompted calls for revenge from Hamas militants.
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Israel is keeping some army units in the Gaza Strip after completing a 17-day operation to stop Palestinian rocket attacks, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.
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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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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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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel's attacks against militants in the Gaza Strip had led to a drop in rocket strikes from the territory and they would continue.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, saying troops will remain until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted. Israeli officials said the offensive -- in which 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed -- will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday after tearing up roads, flattening greenhouses and knocking down dozens of houses in a devastating two-day raid, part of Israel's expanding invasion of the northern Gaza Strip.    The Israeli offensive is in its third week and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told legislators Thursday that the campaign would continue and even be broadened...
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Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday agreed to press ahead with military raids in Gaza but did not opt for a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks, political sources said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a major Israeli offensive that would re-occupy northern parts of the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian fighters firing homemade rockets into Israel , Israeli Army Radio said.
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Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday agreed to press on with military raids and "targeted killings" in the Gaza Strip but had not ordered a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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An Israeli general said Monday that the army could move back into the Gaza Strip at any time after next year&#39;s planned pullout from the territory if attacks by Palestinian militants continue.
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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 said on Friday it had cut electricity supplies to Gaza as part of a campaign against militant attacks but stressed the reduction was minimal, amid international criticism.
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Israel pulled most of its forces out of the northern Gaza Strip Saturday after a four-day incursion it said was staged to halt Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns.