Hamas: &#39;stop offensive, we stop rockets&#39;
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A senior Hamas leader said Thursday launching homemade rockets at southern Israel would stop only if Israel halts its military operations.
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A ceasefire began in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, heralding a possible end to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and a halt to a crushing Israeli military offensive.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview with an Egyptian newspaper. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel told the army to do whatever was needed to end Palestinian rocket, mortar, and bomb attacks, and the government dismissed a call yesterday by the Palestinian leadership for a halt to militant violence, hours before Palestinians said Israeli tank fire had killed a 28-year-old man and his mother in the Gaza Strip.
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A local Hamas leader indicated Monday the militant group would not attack Israelis during the Palestinian presidential campaign and would consider a formal truce with
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The State Department called on Israel Friday to limit its military response to a rocket attack by Hamas that killed two small Israeli children.
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Halting Palestinian rocket attacks could be crucial for Sharon&#39;s plan to abandon occupied Gaza next year. Criticism has soared since a. Palestinian rocket killed two Israeli toddlers at a border town last Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM - Israel unveiled a new tactic yesterday aimed at deterring Palestinians from firing rockets out of the Gaza Strip: It will cut off Gaza's electricity bit by bit as a pressure tactic every time rockets hit Israeli territory.
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Militant groups in the Gaza Strip have agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight Saturday, senior Palestinian officials said.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A militant group linked to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction announced yesterday it is ready to stop violence if Israel halts military operations, and Israeli officials indicated that they are considering the idea.
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A leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement says that without a Palestinian state, there will be another uprising.
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Palestinian militant groups offered Israel to stop firing rockets into the Jewish state in exchange for a cessation of all attacks on the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, an official said on Thursday.
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Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian militants will cease firing rockets at Israel from Gaza on Sunday, President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who pledged in return to halt attacks in the territory if the salvoes stopped.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday most Palestinian militant groups would halt their rocket fire against Israel if the Jewish state stopped its attacks against the Palestinians.
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A top Israeli official says the significance of withdrawing from Gaza is to stop a political settlement with Palestinians.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for Palestinian president, called on militants Sunday to stop firing rockets at Israel, as Israeli tanks and troops massed in northern Gaza in response to the latest barrage.