Israel vows to press Gaza offensive
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday he would push ahead with the army&#039;s widescale offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the fight to free an abducted soldier and stop militant rocket fire would last for a &quot;long time.&quot;
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Israel threatened to use force to topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders on Monday following a surge of cross-border rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group.
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NIZMIT HILL, Israel  - Israeli tanks and troops   massed near Gaza on Tuesday for a threatened offensive against   Palestinian militants as the Israeli government said it would   target Hamas leaders if an abducted soldier was not freed.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a coalition with Shimon Peres's  Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza  pullout.
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Israel vowed on Tuesday to respond against militants who launched a cross-border rocket attack into the Jewish state from southern Lebanon, but said it would act with restraint to avoid inflaming the situation.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  vowed on Monday to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a  parliamentary vote on Oct. 25 despite far-right opposition that  threatens to bring down his government.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says strikes on Hamas will continue, after a rocket from Gaza kills an Israeli in Sderot.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon vowed on  Sunday to widen an offensive into Gaza which has killed 55  Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets that have  fueled criticism of his plan to quit the occupied strip.
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Israel's prime minister on Wednesday   ordered the army to expand an offensive against the ruling   Palestinian movement Hamas after its armed wing fired a missile   from Gaza into a major Israeli city for the first time.
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Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday agreed to press on with military raids and "targeted killings" in the Gaza Strip but had not ordered a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Hamas vowed on Friday to hit back hard for  Israel's assassination of the "Father of the Qassam" rocket, a  weapon symbolizing Palestinian militants' defiance of Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to quit Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Israel will expand its offensive in Gaza, to stop Palestinian terrorists from firing rockets into southern Israel.
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JERUSALEM, AUGUST 19: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan despite a humiliating rebuff from his own party of his bid to forge a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive into northern Gaza, saying troops will remain in the area until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Sunday to expand a huge offensive into Gaza that has killed 50 Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets into Israel.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  vowed on Monday to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a  parliamentary vote on Oct. 25, despite persistent violence in  the coastal strip and fierce opposition from Israel's far  right.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today said he has ordered the army to step up its war on Palestinian militants ahead of a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.