Israel delays invasion of northern Gaza
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Israel has delayed a ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, security officials said Thursday. Israel invaded southern Gaza on Wednesday to try to win the release of a captured Israeli soldier.
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GAZA CITY: A Hamas leader was killed Friday as Israel pressed a major offensive in the northern Gaza Strip Friday and imposed a watertight closure on the Palestinian territories ahead of the Jewish New Year.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and troops have pushed into northern Gaza in a raid aimed at militants who have fired rockets at Israeli towns.
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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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Israel poured reinforcements into the  northern Gaza Strip on Friday, expanding a ground offensive  intended to stop rocket attacks on Israeli towns and killing  two Hamas militants in a missile strike.
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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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The Israeli army kept up pressure in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a senior Hamas commander, as forces sealed off the Palestinian territories for the Jewish holiday season in Israel.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli and Palestinian security officials have begun indirect contacts aimed at ending a major Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, but the claim was denied by the Palestinians.    The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinians delivered messages through mediators, offering to try to prevent rocket fire on Israeli towns if Israel ends the operation, which has left 68 Palestinians dead in six days...
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Israel's military said Saturday that its 17-day incursion into the northern Gaza Strip struck a heavy blow against Palestinian militants routinely firing makeshift rockets into the country's southern region.
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Several disagreements regarding the deployment of Lebanese and U.N. forces in southern Lebanon have delayed a final Israeli troop withdrawal from that country, Israeli military officials said Thursday.
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Israeli tanks moved into the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks that front-running Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas said could achieve nothing.
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ISRAEL&#39;S evacuation of the Gaza Strip will begin next northern summer and will take about 12 weeks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today, reversing an earlier decision to speed up the pullout.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel's military said Saturday that its 17-day incursion into the northern Gaza Strip struck a heavy blow against Palestinian militants routinely firing makeshift rockets into the country's southern region.    Palestinian residents, however, accused the army of wanton destruction, saying the broad military offensive targeted densely populated areas never used to launch rockets...
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Israel eased a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing in some food and fuel Tuesday after the UN warned that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend
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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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The Israeli army has massed forces in the  northern Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks launched on  Israeli towns earlier on Tuesday, Israel Radio reported.
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Dubai, Oct. 16 (NNN): With the beginning of Muslim fasting month of Ramzan, Israeli troops are reported to have withdrawn completely from northern Gaza after a 16-day operation which saw the heaviest fighting there in four years.