Israel flattens Hamas ministry in Gaza Strip
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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The ruling Hamas faction deployed armed militants in key parts of the Gaza Strip on Friday, one day after it accused rival Fatah forces of trying to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas sources said.
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Cabinet ministers in the Hamas-led Palestinian government resigned Thursday, a step toward forming a unity government with Palestinian President Mamoud Abbas' Fatah party.
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defence minister said on Thursday.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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Abbas dissolves the government, but  Hamas now controls Gaza. For Israel, the choice is between trying to reverse that reality, or dealing  with the Islamists
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Israel detains more than 30 senior Hamas officials, including the Palestinian education minister.
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the coastal strip on Friday in an intensified campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Israeli cabinet ministers urged sharper military action in Gaza after a rocket attack by Palestinian militants seriously wounded two brothers.
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The Israeli army kept up pressure in the  northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a senior Hamas  commander, as forces sealed off the Palestinian territories for  the Jewish holiday season in Israel.
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JERUSALEM, June 14 -- Hamas gunmen wrested control of a key security base in Gaza City from the rival Fatah movement Thursday morning, further consolidating their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested the second Hamas cabinet minister in less than a week.
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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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Hamas' path in consolidating control in the Gaza Strip:
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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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 began restricting fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ostensibly in retaliation for rocket attacks on its territory, according to European Union and Palestinian sources.