Israeli forces ready major operation
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TEL AVIV -- Israeli forces took over a 5-mile-wide swath of the northern Gaza Strip yesterday and prepared for major operations against Palestinian groups that have been launching Qassam rockets at targets in southern Israel, signaling a sharp escalation in the conflict for which hard-liners on both sides have been pushing.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz said.
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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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Bring in three planeloads of equipment (including bomb-sniffing dogs) and make sure all the roads are sealed. And that's just in Israel
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A command centre for a joint US-Iraqi offensive to restore security in Baghdad is ready to go into operation.
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Israel launched on Wednesday its first   ground offensive in the Gaza Strip since leaving the territory   last year, stepping up pressure on Palestinian militants to   release an abducted soldier.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian police commanders began preparations yesterday to take control of four West Bank towns by midweek, after top Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed on a security plan for the West Bank.
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US and Iraqi forces are conducting a major offensive to root out insurgents in the central Iraqi city of Samarra. In the largest operation seen in the city in several months, an estimated
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, one of the army&#39;s deadliest offensives in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on   Monday he had put the army on standby for a major offensive   against Palestinian militants in Gaza as officials tried to   secure the release of a kidnapped soldier.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a major Israeli offensive that would re-occupy northern parts of the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian fighters firing homemade rockets into Israel , Israeli Army Radio said.
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The Palestinian leader orders his security forces to prevent militant attacks on Israelis, officials say.
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Following consultation with senior security officials Thursday afternoon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided to widen the IDF&#39;s operation in the northern Gaza Strip in response the increasing attacks generating from the area.
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JERUSALEM - Five days into Israel's largest offensive in Gaza in years, army commanders were talking of an operation lasting weeks, while officials looked even further ahead - to Israel's planned evacuation of Gaza settlements next year.    Early Monday, the bodies of four Palestinians were brought from the northern town of Beit Lahiya to a Gaza hospital...
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Armoured vehicles massed on Gaza&#39;s border Friday after Israel&#39;s security cabinet approved a large-scale military operation - dubbed Days of Penitence - to stop Palestinian rocket fire.
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American forces are gearing up for a major operation in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, where up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam Hussein loyalists and common criminals
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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.