Sharon vows to expand offensive
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Jerusalem, Oct. 4. (PTI): At least nine Palestinians were killed Sunday by Israeli forces as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a ceasefire offer from Hamas and vowed to &quot;expand&quot; the military offensive in
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the army to step up its war on Palestinian militants before a planned withdrawal from Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM - 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 at least 61 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed - will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal...
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Description: NPR&#39;s Sheilah Kast talks with NPR&#39;s Julie McCarthy about Israel&#39;s ongoing offensive in the Gaza strip. Is really Prime Minister Ariel&#39;&#39;s around today called for an expansion of an army operation
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Israel intends to step up a quick reaction system to combat Palestinian rocket attacks at Israeli targets, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet Sunday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  vowed on Thursday to forge a coalition with the opposition  Labour party to save his ruined government and stave off snap  elections that could stymie his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will restart efforts to widen his coalition after parliament voted late yesterday against approving a speech supporting his Gaza Strip withdrawal plan, the government said.
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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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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed Sunday to press ahead with a massive military incursion in the Gaza Strip that has killed almost 60 people in five days.
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Israel will keep troops in the Gaza Strip indefinitely to prevent Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns, Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, said yesterday.
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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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Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians. briefed him on Israel&#39;s biggest and bloodiest military campaign in the Gaza Strip in four years of open conflict.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said  Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, one of  the army's deadliest offensives in more than four years of  conflict with the Palestinians.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Monday that Israel would not carry out disengagement under fire and promised that the army would respond with severity to continued attacks on Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip.
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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.
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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.