Sharon Vows to Expand Gaza Raid, Toll Hits 50
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon vowed on  Sunday to widen an offensive into Gaza which has killed at  least 50 Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets that  have fueled criticism of his plan to abandon the occupied  strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the army operation in northern Gaza would expand and continue for as long as necessary to prevent Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  Monday submitted his Gaza withdrawal plan for a crucial  parliamentary vote, while tanks and troops killed 16  Palestinians in a raid against militants in the coastal strip.
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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 air strikes killed five  Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday as the Palestinian death toll  rose to 100 in a 16-day-old army offensive aimed at crushing  militants behind rocket salvoes into Israel.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon vowed on  Sunday to widen an offensive into Gaza which has killed 55  Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets that have  fueled criticism of his plan to quit the occupied strip.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Thursday to push ahead with his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip despite a stinging public rebuke from his Likud Party.
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(CBS/AP) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that he would push ahead with a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip despite a stinging setback to the plan from his Likud Party.
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JERUSALEM - Facing unrelenting criticism from Jewish settlers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that nothing would deter him from pushing forward with his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.    Also Monday, scattered fighting in the Gaza Strip killed at least five Palestinian militants...
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed  on Sunday to expand an offensive in Gaza that has killed 55  Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets into Israel.
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JERUSALEM/GAZA - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his security cabinet agreed late Thursday to a major offensive military offensive against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip -- Israel widened its offensive in the Gaza Strip yesterday, as troops killed nine Palestinians, bringing the five-day death toll to 57 in the largest operation in Gaza since fighting began four years ago.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday to escalate a broad Israeli offensive into northern Gaza, saying troops will remain in the area until Palestinian rocket attacks are halted.
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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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The ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza has so far claimed more than 70 Palestinian lives and wounded more than 250 in some of the bloodiest conflict since the start of the present intifada.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has submitted his Gaza withdrawal plan for a crucial parliamentary vote, while tanks and troops have killed 14 Palestinians in a raid in the coastal strip.