Israel attacks Gaza; contacts new Abbas govt
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Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the West Bank.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least five fighters, and seized a Palestinian cabinet minister.
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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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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday severed contact with the new Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, over an attack at a Gaza border crossing that killed six Israelis, saying it wanted to see what steps Abbas would take to crack down on militants before any further dealings with him.
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GAZA CITY, Oct 22  - Israel carried out another air strike on Gaza City overnight Thursday, witnesses said Friday. Helicopter gunships fired three missiles at the house of a local chief of the so-called People&#39;s Resistance Committees.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will  refuse to meet Mahmoud Abbas until the new Palestinian leader  moves against militant groups behind an attack that killed six  Israelis in Gaza, Sharon's spokesman said on Friday.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least four fighters, and seized a minister in Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet, stepping up a campaign against the ruling Islamists.
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Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, with the military saying it aimed at open areas, and Palestinian medical officials saying a car was hit.
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Gaza militants hit an army base in Israel  with rocket fire Wednesday, wounding 12 soldiers, as they  defied calls for a halt to attacks from Mahmoud Abbas, the  frontrunner to succeed Yasser Arafat in elections Sunday.
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JERUSALEM, June 21 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Monday for the first time since the armed Islamic movement Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, holding talks with two moderate Arab leaders who have a large stake in resolving the...
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SDEROT, Israel -- Israel renewed limited contacts with the Palestinian Authority yesterday as the two sides held security talks to discuss a spike in violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli and Palestinian security officials have begun indirect contacts aimed at ending a major Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, but the claim was denied by the Palestinians.    The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinians delivered messages through mediators, offering to try to prevent rocket fire on Israeli towns if Israel ends the operation, which has left 68 Palestinians dead in six days...
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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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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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Palestinian militants angry over Yasser  Arafat's death attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip  on Thursday in what they said signaled the start of a new round  of clashes against Israel.
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Gunmen fired mortar bombs at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's office in Gaza on Sunday after Abbas forces took over two ministries run by the ruling Hamas movement, which has dismissed his call for new elections.
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Israel carried out an air strike near the Gaza residence of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Friday but insisted he was not the target.