Israel Plans Large-Scale Gaza Operation
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Israel&#39;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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JERUSALEM, June 27 -- In the largest military operation since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, Israeli forces killed at least 13 Palestinians Wednesday and wounded more than 40 others in ground fighting backed by tanks and air support across the territory.
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Israel is planning cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza to try to halt rocket attacks, officials say.
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Israeli troops seize a nine-kilometre area in Gaza to try to stop Palestinian rocket attacks inside Israeli towns.
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PRIME Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday Israel would expand its deadliest Gaza offensive in four years, keeping troops in the area indefinitely.
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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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Israeli tanks and helicopters swept into  the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, a day after  soldiers killed 14 Hamas militants in the biggest ever raid of  its kind.
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JERUSALEM  - A large-scale Israeli army incursion was still going on before dawn in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli military source told AFP.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, the army's biggest and deadliest offensive in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israel's security cabinet approves a plan for a major operation in the Gaza Strip amid escalating violence.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Sunday to expand a huge offensive into Gaza that has killed 50 Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets into Israel.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza StriP -- Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip yesterday as the army massed an armoured force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians&#39; biggest
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Israeli and Palestinian officials begin negotiations to end a massive army operation in Gaza, Israeli sources say.
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Israeli tanks and helicopters swept into the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas militants in the biggest ever raid of its kind.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, saying troops will remain until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted. Israeli officials said the offensive &#151; in which 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed &#151; will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal.
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Israel massed tanks and troops along Gaza&#039;s northern border early Monday, firing artillery and unleashing more airstrikes in a show of force after the prime minister ordered his army to &quot;do all it can&quot; to free an abducted soldier.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip Oct. 2, 2004 - More troops poured into the Gaza Strip on Saturday as Israel expanded its offensive to counter Palestinian rocket fire, one of the largest incursions in four years of fighting.