Gaza lights up as Israel eases fuel blockade
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Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip's main power plant on Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.
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Israel on Thursday lifted an air   blockade of Lebanon imposed when it went to war with Hizbollah   guerrillas eight weeks ago and a Lebanese airliner landed at   Beirut's patched-up airport to mark the moment.
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Palestinians flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip by the tens of thousands Saturday in the biggest show of support for Hamas since the Islamic militants seized the territory in June.
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Israel agreed to allow diesel fuel and medicine into Gaza on a one-time basis, easing the blockade imposed because of a surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
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Israel's military is to cut off electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to continued rocket attacks from Hamas.
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Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's cutoff of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip, a court spokeswoman said.
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Palestinian militants escalate rocket fire and Israel says it will keep up military pressure on Gaza.
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Large parts of the Gaza Strip plunged into darkness on Sunday when its main power plant shut down after Israel blocked fuel supplies and shut the border to the Hamas-run territory.
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Israeli forces took over on Thursday an area of northern Gaza that used to be home to three Jewish settlements, creating a temporary buffer zone meant to prevent Palestinian militants from firing rockets at Israeli towns and cities.
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JERUSALEM - Israel unveiled a new tactic yesterday aimed at deterring Palestinians from firing rockets out of the Gaza Strip: It will cut off Gaza's electricity bit by bit as a pressure tactic every time rockets hit Israeli territory.
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Israel relaxed travel restrictions Wednesday, allowing a few seriously ill Palestinians and all foreign nationals to leave Gaza.
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Long lines formed at fuel stations in the Gaza Strip on Saturday following rumors Israel might cut off supplies after the armed takeover by Hamas.
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Gaza Dec 28: Fighters in the Gaza Strip are proud to show off the latest addition to their arsenal of homemade rockets - the âYasser Arafatâ.
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Tens of thousands of  Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday  after militants blew up a border wall, and stocked up on food  and fuel in short supply because of an Israeli blockade.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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A column of Israeli tanks surged into the heart of the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday as the army broadened its sweep for militants behind a deadly rocket attack on an Israeli town.