Sharon to Widen Gaza Offensive
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The Israeli army killed nine fighters in and around the Gaza Strip on Saturday, raising the Palestinian death toll over 50 in one of the biggest and bloodiest offensives in four years of conflict.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday he would push ahead with the army&#039;s widescale offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the fight to free an abducted soldier and stop militant rocket fire would last for a &quot;long time.&quot;
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a major Israeli offensive that would re-occupy northern parts of the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian fighters firing homemade rockets into Israel , Israeli Army Radio said.
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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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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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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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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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TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's army will operate in the northern Gaza Strip until all Palestinian rocket fire against Israeli towns is halted, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said late Saturday in an interview on Israel Radio.    Sharon spoke as his forces ended the fourth day of an invasion in which 50 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed...
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BEIT LAHIYA, OCTOBER 13: The Israeli Army widened its massive operation in Northern Gaza today, as an 11-year-old schoolgirl became the latest victim of a fortnight of violence in the Palestinian territory.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, the army&#39;s biggest and deadliest offensive in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon launched new efforts Tuesday to widen his shaky coalition after a stinging setback in parliament that complicated his plan to withdraw from some occupied territory.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza  Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against militants  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse internal  resistance to his plan for withdrawing from some occupied land.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon says he would consider co-ordinating his Gaza pullout plan with new Palestinian leaders if they moved to curb attacks on Israelis.
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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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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that Israel was strengthening its military presence in the northern Gaza Strip.
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Israel intends to step up a quick reaction system to combat Palestinian rocket attacks at Israeli targets, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet Sunday.