Israeli Troops Raid Gaza to Prevent Mortar, Rocket Launches
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Israeli forces moved into Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Friday to prevent mortar and anti-tank fire against Israeli soldiers and civilians as PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas
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ZIKKIM, Israel  - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded 30 soldiers in Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory.
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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&#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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The Israeli army killed five Palestinians  in missile strikes Friday as it poured reinforcements into the  Gaza Strip, expanding a ground offensive intended to root out  militants firing rockets at Israeli towns.
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Israeli ground troops entered the central Gaza Strip Wednesday night, a day after rocket fire from the Palestinian territory wounded dozens of Israeli soldiers. But the military described the incursion as routine and said it was not part of a large-scale mission.
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ZIKKIM, Israel  - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded some 30 soldiers in Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory.
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Israel poured reinforcements into the  northern Gaza Strip on Friday, expanding a ground offensive  intended to stop rocket attacks on Israeli towns and killing  two Hamas militants in a missile strike.
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Israeli forces fired rockets at the Gaza City on Monday, responding to an earlier attack launched by Hamas movement against an army post.
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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.
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Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched a raid into the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing five Hamas gunmen and a schoolteacher, the ruling Palestinian Islamist faction and hospital officials said.
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Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians on  Thursday, including two teenagers, as tanks pushed into the  southern Gaza Strip in what the army called a raid to stop  mortar and rocket attacks on Jewish settlements.
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JERUSALEM Israeli forces continued a major operation in Gaza on Thursday with tanks and armored vehicles to suppress rocket fire into Israel, and in the process killed seven Palestinians, while another Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the West
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Defiant Palestinian militants fired  rockets into an Israeli border town on Monday despite an  Israeli military offensive, the bloodiest in the Gaza Strip in  four years of conflict, intended to stop such attacks.
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GAZA CITY -- Israeli troops and tanks made their deepest thrust into the Gaza Strip in six months yesterday in a stepped-up campaign to halt a week-old barrage of Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli jets struck five targets in the coastal territory, wounding at least seven people.
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Israeli tanks moved into the northern Gaza  Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks that  front-running Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas  said could achieve nothing.
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Israeli Army troops launched a second raid Wednesday on the southern Gaza city of al Meghraqa and arrested eight Palestinians, according to Palestinian security sources.