Israel begins new Gaza clampdown
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Troops cut Gaza into three parts and shut the Egypt border after Palestinian militants fire rockets.
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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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Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the West Bank.
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An Israeli helicopter fires missiles into Gaza City as the army steps up operations against Palestinian militants.
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Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following through on a promise to step up pressure on the area's Hamas rulers in response to months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said  Sunday he was giving Israel's army free rein to battle  militants in Gaza, and the Palestinian leadership called for a  halt to attacks on Israelis.
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Israel's attorney general has intervened to suspend plans to restrict electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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Israel on Wednesday launched its first major attacks in the Gaza Strip since Hamas took over the territory, killing at least four Palestinian fighters.
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Responding to death threats against government ministers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered law enforcement agencies Sunday to crack down on Jewish extremists opposed to the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel said Friday it was easing a  crushing offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians  since tanks rumbled into northern Gaza 16 days ago to stop  militants from launching cross-border rocket attacks.
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Israeli forces launched a raid into a Gaza Strip refugee camp today to curtail Palestinian mortar fire on a nearby Jewish settlement, an Israeli army
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The moderate Palestinian government has ordered the closure of more than 100 institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Monday, in an apparent crackdown against the Islamic Hamas.
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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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NABLUS, West Bank -- Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn yesterday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel launched air strikes targeting Palestinian rocket launch sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first air strikes since Hamas seized control of the territory last week.
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Israel orders closure of crossings, preventing people going out and UN trucks from delivering food aid