Israeli Army Prepares for Showdown in Gaza
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the army massed an armored force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians' biggest refugee camp.    Some 200 tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored bulldozers assembled along Israel's border to the north and east of Gaza...
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza StriP -- Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip yesterday as the army massed an armoured force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians&#39; biggest
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ZIKKIM, Israel  - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded 30 soldiers in Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense minister, undaunted by growing resistance within the ruling party to a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip, said yesterday that the army's blueprint for the withdrawal will be ready next month.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of its planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, its defense minister said, signaling that a deadly attack on an Israeli army outpost has not derailed peace efforts.
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Israel lost its first soldier in combat in nine months on Thursday in a confrontation with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group seized control over rival Palestinian factions a month ago.
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Palestinian militants escalate rocket fire and Israel says it will keep up military pressure on Gaza.
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The Israeli army has massed forces in the  northern Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks launched on  Israeli towns earlier on Tuesday, Israel Radio reported.
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Israeli forces pressed ahead yesterday with one of the biggest offensives in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting, killing 10 Palestinians in dawn-to-dusk gunbattles and airstrikes, according to officials from both sides.
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The army is in a very advanced stage of preparations for a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements in 2005, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant
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Rival members of two Palestinian security  services fought running street battles in Gaza on Monday,  witnesses said, in a fresh blow to stability in the occupied  Strip ahead of Israel's planned pullout next year.
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Israel's security cabinet met on Wednesday to consider stepping up military assaults in Gaza to counter a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks that have killed two Israelis in the past week.
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Israeli forces have mounted a new incursion into the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. A military spokeswoman says soldiers were looking for tunnels being used to smuggle arms from Egypt and to hunt down Palestinian militants.
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NIZMIT HILL, Israel  - Israeli tanks and troops   massed near Gaza on Tuesday for a threatened offensive against   Palestinian militants as the government said it would target   Hamas leaders if an abducted soldier was not freed.
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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.
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Israel&#39;s defense minister decided Thursday to launch a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli border towns, an Israeli radio station reported.
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Israel is moving ahead with plans for a high-tech shield to protect its civilians from rockets, army officers and Defense Ministry officials said Wednesday.