Israelis arrest Hamas leaders
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Israeli troops in the West Bank arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members early Thursday, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors &#151; pressing forward with an offensive against the Islamic militant group.
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An Israeli military court on Wednesday ordered the release of the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking Hamas official rounded up in an Israeli crackdown against the militant group, his lawyer said.
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Israel bombed a series of Hamas buildings and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister.
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Palestinians hold three faction officials in the first arrests linked to anti-Israeli violence since Palestinian elections.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the Hamas  group Wednesday, arresting a West Bank leader held responsible  for a twin suicide bus bombing that killed 16 and killing a  militant in a Gaza air strike.
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Israeli military police on Tuesday  arrested a commander accused by comrades of riddling the body  of a Palestinian schoolgirl with bullets after fellow soldiers  killed her.
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Israel  arrests 13 UN employees on suspicion of "links to terrorism" but does not give  their nationalities.
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Israel seized a minister in Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's cabinet on Saturday and pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip as part of an expanded campaign against the ruling Islamist group.
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Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and helicopters arrested four suspected Palestinian militants near Gaza City in a pinpoint operation Wednesday, the army and witnesses said.
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Israeli forces detained two Palestinians,   who the army said were Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on   Saturday in what marked the first such arrest raid in the   territory since Israel pulled out of Gaza a year ago.
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Palestinians briefly hold three faction officials in the first arrests linked to anti-Israeli violence since Palestinian elections.
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IDF troops on Wednesday arrested Imad Kawasmeh, commander of Hamas&#39; military wing in Hebron, and the man responsible for sending two suicide bombers to Beersheba two months ago.
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Israeli forces have detained a senior leader of Hamas&#39;s military wing in the West Bank on during a night-time raid on his hideout, witnesses say.
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn yesterday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli police on Monday briefly arrested a Palestinian presidential candidate as he campaigned in Jerusalem, hours after Israel released almost 160 Palestinian prisoners as an apparent act of goodwill toward Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israel freed Hamas's top  West Bank leader Thursday after two years in jail and he  swiftly called on the Jewish state to release all Palestinian  inmates as a condition for any truce.
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An Israeli military judge on Tuesday   ordered the release of 21 Palestinian Hamas officials detained   in a dragnet launched after a soldier was abducted by gunmen in   the Gaza Strip, an army spokesman said.