Israel declares Gaza "enemy entity" as Rice visits
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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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The Israeli security Cabinet declared Hamas-controlled Gaza an "enemy entity" Wednesday in response to continued Palestinian rocket attacks, Israel Radio reported.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip  - The moderate  frontrunner in the race for Palestinian president called Israel  the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday after an Israeli tank killed seven  Palestinian youths in a Gaza strawberry field.
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Egyptian government spokesman Magdy Rady linked to the Israeli military operation against the Palestinians in the neighboring Gaza Strip, where 84 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli offensive that began on Sept.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas denounced Israel as the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday &#151; his harshest language yet on the campaign trail &#151; after Israeli tank shells slammed into a strawberry patch, killing seven Palestinians, many of them children.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - On her seventh visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in under two years, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came away with no tangible results on Friday but said she saw promise in a Gaza truce.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has closed all border crossings into Gaza, cutting off food and humanitarian supplies to the coastal strip in a bid to pressure its Hamas rulers to stop a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli towns, defense officials said Friday.
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A senior Hamas official on Monday accused the United States of "sowing sedition" among the Palestinians hours after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a rare summit with the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian president.
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Israel has delayed a ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, security officials said Thursday. Israel invaded southern Gaza on Wednesday to try to win the release of a captured Israeli soldier.
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ANKARA/JERUSALEM  - Condoleezza Rice begins her  first visit as secretary of state to the heart of the Middle  East conflict Sunday with Israelis and Palestinians already set  on a new course of dialogue after four years of violence.
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Palestinian militants in Gaza launched rocket attacks into Israel Sunday, Israel police and army officials said, hours after a cease-fire in Gaza was agreed upon by the Israeli government and Palestinian factions.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hopes to drive the Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace in Jerusalem on Sunday on her first visit as secretary of state to the heart of their conflict.
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SDEROT, Israel  - Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets into an Israeli town on Tuesday during a visit by the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, critically wounding one person, witnesses and ambulance workers said.
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Israel's Security Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" Wednesday, Israeli radio stations reported.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 19 -- Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday declared the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity" and said it would begin cutting electricity and fuel to the Hamas-run territory in an effort to stop near-daily rocket fire into Israel.
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JERUSALEM -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States is ``very concerned" about the living conditions of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and would redouble its efforts to improve their situation.