Sharon gives army carte blanche to stop Gaza attacks, warns ...
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the army free rein to respond to repeated attacks by Palestinian militants in Gaza and warned he would not tolerate dissent in the ranks during the pullout from the territory.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave  the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of  northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed  the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four  years.
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Israel announced on Friday it was winding down its 17-day deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon observed the army&#39;s warning that staying more than that in crowded Palestinian areas was too risky.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive into northern Gaza, saying troops will remain in the area until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the army to do whatever was needed to end Palestinian rocket, mortar and bomb attacks, and the government dismissed a call Sunday by the PLO leadership for a halt to militant violence, hours before Palestinians claimed Israeli tank fire had killed a 28-year-old man and his mother in the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned last night that his country would not withdraw from the Gaza Strip under fire, and would move strongly to crush any attempt by Palestinian extremist groups to attack soldiers or settlers while the withdrawal, which is planned for next summer, is taking place.
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday that Israel was strengthening its military presence in the northern Gaza Strip and would keep troops in the territory until there was a halt to Palestinian rocket fire.
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Palestinian security forces took up positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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Description: The ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said the operation will continue until Israeli settlements and nearby towns are no longer threatened by rocket fire from Palestinian militants.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel scaled back its 17-day offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the army's warning that a long stay in crowded Palestinian areas is too risky and the United States called for a quick Israeli pullout.    Sharon's decision came just hours after he told legislators Thursday that "Operation Days of Penitence," meant to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities, would continue and even be expanded...
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, one of the army&#39;s deadliest offensives in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings in Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on  Sunday he was giving Israel's army free rein to battle  militants in Gaza and accused the new Palestinian leadership he  now shuns of doing nothing to stop attacks on Israelis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed  on Sunday to expand an offensive in Gaza that has killed 55  Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets into Israel.
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Palestinian security forces took up  positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant  attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Israel will expand its offensive in Gaza, to stop Palestinian terrorists from firing rockets into southern Israel.
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The top Palestinian security commander promises swift action to stop militant attacks against Israel.