Israel closes Gaza crossings as Palestinian casualties increase
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Israel orders closure of crossings, preventing people going out and UN trucks from delivering food aid
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Gaza City awoke Monday to shuttered bread shops and gas stations, prompting fears of a humanitarian crisis as Israel pressed ahead with efforts to stop Palestinian rocket fire, refusing to reopen crossings or allow in crucial fuel supplies
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel eased its siege of Gaza for a day on Tuesday, allowing in shipments of fuel and medicine. But tensions erupted over Egypt's closure of its Gaza border, with Palestinian protesters breaking through the crossing and clashing with Egyptian guards.
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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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GAZA CITY - Fighting in the Gaza Strip left three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier dead yesterday as Israeli forces crossed into the Palestinian territory to push Hamas gunmen back from the border. In one incursion, Israeli tanks and helicopters shelled the town of Beit Hanoun, drawing anti-tank rocket fire from the armed wing of Hamas. An Israeli reservist, a ...
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The Israeli army kept up pressure in the  northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a senior Hamas  commander, as forces sealed off the Palestinian territories for  the Jewish holiday season in Israel.
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The Israeli defense minister has ordered troops to close border crossings that lead to and from the Gaza Strip, a spokesman said Friday
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from crossing into Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
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Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen exchanged fire Monday at the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding 10, the Israeli rescue service and Palestinian hospital officials said.
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Israel orders the closure of Gaza's border with Egypt to prevent Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya's return.
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JERUSALEM &#151; Israeli forces cut main Gaza roads on Thursday after militants fired rockets at an Israeli town, and soldiers tore down houses in a refugee camp on the Egyptian border.
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Israeli troops and armor crossed into the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing seven Palestinian militants, including six from the Islamist Hamas group that controls the coastal territory.
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Israel closed all border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Friday, cutting off at least one aid shipment, and bombed the empty Interior Ministry building of the Palestinian Authority.
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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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Up to 12 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed in an upsurge of violence in the Gaza Strip following the deaths of two Israeli children in a rocket attack yesterday.
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Israelâs closing of its border crossings with Gaza remained in effect Sunday, and Gazaâs only electricity plant shut down because of a shortage of imported fuel needed to run it.
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At least four Palestinians have been killed and five injured in the continuing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip. In the latest violence a Palestinian teenager was shot dead and two others wounded by Israeli