Israeli Army Prepares for Gaza Operation
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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 on Gaza's north and east of Gaza...
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The top Palestinian security commander said Wednesday he will deploy forces on Gaza's border with Israel to prevent rocket attacks, the first concrete step to rein in militants since Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas took office over the weekend.
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Israeli tanks and troops moved into southern Gaza early Wednesday in a new phase of a two-week offensive aimed at militants holding a captured soldier and firing rockets, Palestinians and the military said.
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An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a   bridge in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday as troops prepared   for a threatened offensive into the territory, Palestinian   witnesses said.
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MARK COLVIN: More than 2,000 Israeli troops, backed by 200 tanks, are digging in for a long and bloody operation in the Gaza Strip.
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip, October 5 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - As the United Nations was set to vote Tuesday, October 5, on a resolution calling on Israel to halt its bloodiest onslaught on Gaza in years, Israelâs occupation army pressed ahead
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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 is to deploy a specialist unit to take over  manning some West Bank and Gaza checkpoints.
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Israel's prime minister on Wednesday   ordered the army to expand an offensive against the ruling   Palestinian movement Hamas after its armed wing fired a missile   from Gaza into a major Israeli city for the first time.
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Israel said Friday that it had begun to redeploy troops in Gaza and remove some of them altogether as it scales back its 17-day military operation in the northern Gaza
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Palestinian troops are being deployed in the northern Gaza Strip to prevent rocket attacks into Israel.
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Israel'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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NABLUS, West Bank, Jan. 3 -- Israeli forces launched military operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank early Thursday, hours before a Katyusha rocket fired from Gaza crashed down harmlessly near the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
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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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Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians. briefed him on Israel&#39;s biggest and bloodiest military campaign in the Gaza Strip in four years of open conflict.
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Israeli defence minister warns that armed forces are preparing for a broad offensive against Gaza in response to rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns
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JERUSALEM - Five days into Israel's largest offensive in Gaza in years, army commanders were talking of an operation lasting weeks, while officials looked even further ahead - to Israel's planned evacuation of Gaza settlements next year.    Early Monday, the bodies of four Palestinians were brought from the northern town of Beit Lahiya to a Gaza hospital...