Israeli Forces End Northern Gaza Raid - Army
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Israeli forces ended an operation in the northern Gaza Strip less then 24 hours after they raided the area to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, the army said Monday.
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A 17-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, the biggest in four years, came to an end after the army withdrew from the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
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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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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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Hamas vowed revenge on Thursday after Israeli forces ended a raid into the northern Gaza Strip during which they killed 11 Palestinians in clashes with local gunmen.
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Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, ending 11 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory, witnesses and Hamas security officials said.
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JERUSALEM - Israel is scaling back its army offensive in northern Gaza, officials said Friday, as an air raid killed a Palestinian man near the Jebaliya refugee camp.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of  the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers  killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the  leading Palestinian militant group.
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TEL AVIV, Israel Oct. 2, 2004 - Israel&#39;s army will operate in the northern Gaza Strip until all Palestinian rocket fire against Israeli towns is halted, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said late Saturday in an interview on Israel Radio.
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Israeli forces killed three Palestinians on Wednesday after storming into north Gaza for the third time in as many months to quell Palestinian rocket fire into Israel.
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The Israeli army killed two militants Saturday in an air strike in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Palestinians Israel has killed in one of its deadliest Gaza raids to 39.
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Israeli tanks and helicopters swept into the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas militants in the biggest ever raid of its kind.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, saying troops will remain until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted. Israeli officials said the offensive &#151; in which 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed &#151; will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - A large force of Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and troops pushed into northern Gaza in an overnight raid aimed at militants who have fired rockets against nearby Israeli towns. The incursion, which continued Wednesday, killed at least three Palestinians, Palestinians said...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accepted an army plan to reduce the number of soldiers mounting an operation in the Gaza Strip aimed at stopping Palestinian rocket attacks, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, saying troops will remain until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted. Israeli officials said the offensive -- in which 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed -- will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four years.