Israel OKs expansion; 15 troops killed
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Israel approved a massive new ground offensive into southern Lebanon in an effort Wednesday to inflict further damage on Hezbollah and halt most rocket attacks before the U.N. Security Council demands a cease-fire.
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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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Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the army massed an armored force in apparent preparation for a major military operation
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Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least 15 people in simultaneous attacks on two Israeli buses on Tuesday, breaking a long lull in such violence and potentially
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The Israeli military says its troops shot and killed a Palestinian man who entered an area that was off-limits to Palestinians. The man was shot Friday evening, but his body was not discovered until Saturday.
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JERUSALEM, June 27 -- In the largest military operation since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, Israeli forces killed at least 13 Palestinians Wednesday and wounded more than 40 others in ground fighting backed by tanks and air support across the territory.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said the ongoing military raid of northern Gaza, which has already killed 56 Palestinians, should be expanded.
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Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the military operation here entered its 16th day. The Israeli offensive is aimed at ending rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants.
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Israeli troops killed five armed  Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as it pressed on  with a massive offensive aimed at stopping militants firing  rockets into Israel.
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Israel kills several Palestinians as it vows to expand an operation to stop rockets being fired from Gaza.
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GAZA: Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as it pressed a massive 10-day-old offensive that has cost 85 Palestinian lives in an attempt to stop militants firing rockets.
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JERUSALEM Israeli forces continued a major operation in Gaza on Thursday with tanks and armored vehicles to suppress rocket fire into Israel, and in the process killed seven Palestinians, while another Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the West
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Israeli troops killed seven Palestinian gunmen Saturday, including four who cut through Gaza&#39;s border fence, as the military expanded its offensive against Palestinian rocket fire.
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   Hizbollah television and began enforcing a naval blockade of   Lebanon on Thursday, intensifying reprisals after Hizbollah   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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Israel confirmed on Friday that Prime   Minister Ehud Olmert had ordered the army to expand its ground   offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon but said the decision   "does not exclude a diplomatic solution."
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Israel&#39;s premier warned that his army&#39;s largest operation in Gaza in four years would expand, after troops left dozens of dead and rows of houses destroyed, aiming at stopping Palestinian rocket attacks on border towns.
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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.