Gaza incursion 'to curb rockets'
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The Israeli military sends tanks and troops into a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in a bid to end mortar 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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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinian prime minister said yesterday that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
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The operation in north Gaza, called Operation Days of Penitence, began a week ago, when Palestinian rockets had targeted Israeli town and two toddlers were killed in a border town.
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Israeli forces launched a raid into a Gaza Strip refugee camp today to curtail Palestinian mortar fire on a nearby Jewish settlement, an Israeli army
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JERUSALEM - Israel's defense minister decided Thursday to launch a large-scale, open-ended military operation in the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli border towns, an Israeli radio station reported.    Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz made the decision after consultations with army commanders and the Shin Bet security service, Israel Army Radio reported...
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Israeli troops and armoured vehicles have raided a Palestinan refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip in what the army called an operation to halt mortar bomb and rocket attacks on Jewish settlements.
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Israeli tanks rumbled into the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks described by front-running Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas as useless.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday after tearing up roads, flattening greenhouses and knocking down dozens of houses in a devastating two-day raid, part of Israel's expanding invasion of the northern Gaza Strip.    The Israeli offensive is in its third week and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told legislators Thursday that the campaign would continue and even be broadened...
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The Palestinians have pushed for the quick adoption of a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an end to the massive Israeli thrust into the Gaza Strip.
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Israel also mounted new air attacks in Gaza today as part of its efforts to stop rocket fire by Palestinian militants.
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Israel'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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ISRAELI forces have mounted a new incursion into the south of the Gaza Strip, a military spokeswoman said. She said the Israeli forces went into the Rafah refugee camp, near the border with Egypt, to look
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DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for Palestinian president, called on militants yesterday to stop firing rockets at Israel, as Israeli tanks and troops massed in northern Gaza in response to the latest barrage.
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Israeli troops enter the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza in a new attempt, they say, to stop weapons smuggling.
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Hamas's government in the Gaza Strip called on Thursday on Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets and mortar bombs at border crossings with Israel that are used to bring food and other supplies into the territory.
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GAZA, Gaza Strip  - Israeli tanks rumbled into the  northern Gaza Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border  rocket attacks described by front-running Palestinian  presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas as useless.