Hamas rockets fall, Israel eyes escalation
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Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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An Israeli missile strike killed at least two Hamas gunmen in Gaza City Monday, a day after a top commander of the Islamic militant group was killed in a similar attack, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said.
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Israel's Vice Premier Haim Ramon said on Monday a "combination of steps" could topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders within months.
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An Israeli man died in a Hamas rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged to press ahead with military action to halt the salvoes, saying "no one involved in terror" was immune.
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Israel threatened to use force to topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders on Monday following a surge of cross-border rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group.
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At least two Katyusha rockets fell on northern Israel Sunday, the first fired from Lebanon since last summer's inconclusive war with Hezbollah guerrillas. No one was hurt, but there was some damage, police and the military said.
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Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following through on a promise to step up pressure on the area's Hamas rulers in response to months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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depends on whether they can rein in militants, who killed five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday. drew missile strikes in a swift reprisal and dimmed hopes for an end to decades of conflict in the post-Arafat era.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas threatens revenge for an Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza City that killed a Hamas militant. The Israeli Army says the rebel was involved in making and firing rockets at Israeli towns.
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Israeli air strikes killed two Hamas militants in Gaza on Thursday just after the Islamic group renewed its threats to continue rocket attacks against Israelis despite a massive army offensive aimed at stopping them.
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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'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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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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Palestinian militants escalate rocket fire and Israel says it will keep up military pressure on Gaza.
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Israeli air strikes killed two Hamas  militants in Gaza on Thursday just after the Islamic group  renewed its threats to continue rocket attacks against Israelis  despite a massive army offensive aimed at stopping them.
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Palestinian militants fired five rockets at southern Israel early Thursday, shortly after officials said Israeli threats had cowered the Hamas-led government into stopping the attacks.
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The Palestinian Hamas movement said on Sunday that it fired a homemade Qassam rocket at the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Israeli sources said that two people were slightly injured and that six others were being treated for shock.