Israel Scales Back Bloody Gaza Offensive
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Israel has decided to scale back its bloody two-week military operation in northern Gaza, its largest operation there in four years of fighting.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon signaled that he is dropping what was once his key demand for resuming peace talks - a Palestinian crackdown on militant groups.
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Israel's military is to cut off electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to continued rocket attacks from Hamas.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest offensives in four years of conflict that began 16 days ago and that has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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Israeli troops killed five Palestinian  militants in gun battles Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan  to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Israel will sharply reduce its  military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response  to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end  attacks on Israelis.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel began moving tanks and ground forces away from this refugee camp Friday, scaling back its bloodiest offensive in northern Gaza in more than four years of fighting.    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the pullback at the urging of Israeli military commanders, who argued the two-week offensive had played itself out, and after calls from the United States to wrap up the operation...
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The Israel Defense Forces moved out of the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, ending a four-day operation in which eight Palestinians were killed, including a 9-year-old boy, and about 50 Palestinians were wounded.
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Israel withdrew its tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on late Friday, ending its bloody operation in the area.
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Israeli troops killed five Palestinian militants in gun battles on Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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JERUSALEM: Israel scaled back its vast operation in northern Gaza despite the deaths of four more Palestinians as tens of thousands of Muslims joined the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at Jerusalem&#39;s Al Aqsa mosque.
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Israel announced on Friday it was winding down its 17-day deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon observed the army&#39;s warning that staying more than that in crowded Palestinian areas was too risky.
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza  refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians,  including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it  launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish  settlements.
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JERUSALEM &#151; Israeli forces cut main Gaza roads on Thursday after militants fired rockets at an Israeli town, and soldiers tore down houses in a refugee camp on the Egyptian border.
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In an effort to shore up a shaky truce in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials said Monday that they are reducing their operations in the West Bank and had made it more difficult for field commanders to order arrest raids there.
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Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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Israel ordered its army to stop offensive operations in the Gaza Strip and scale them back sharply in the West Bank.