Israel wants to cut Gaza links after border breach
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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 defense minister said on Thursday.
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Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade.
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Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the Palestinian territory, government officials said.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold crisis talks on Sunday on how to limit Hamas control over Gaza's breached border with Egypt.
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Israel says it will erect a fence along the Egypt border to stop possible infiltration by Palestinian militants.
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Diplomatic efforts intensified on  Tuesday to end a massive Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip  that has killed 68 Palestinians, as the Jewish state faced  calls for restraint from its U.S. ally.
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Israel would like to sever its  remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip  after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt,  a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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Israel has plans to build a security trench in the Gaza Strip that could demolish hundreds of Palestinian homes.
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Israel declared the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would cut utilities to the territory. The move complicates a U.S. plan to relaunch peace talks aimed at establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.
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U.S. and European security officials have warned Israel that European states may opt to pull their monitors out of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt unless Israel agrees to keep it open.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from leaving the Hamas-controlled territory in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
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Israel will not stand in the way of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas taking control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt as part of a deal to sideline Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave, officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel said today that it had begun to scale back its 17-day military operation into the northern Gaza Strip after the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians, but Gaza
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when the Jewish state wants Egypt to help secure Gaza after a planned Israeli withdrawal there next year. across the border into the Sinai peninsula, a senior Israeli security source said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian forces began closing the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stemming the flow of Palestinians across the frontier breached by Hamas Islamists last month, witnesses said.
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Israel began scaling back its 17 day offensive in the Gaza Strip today after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the armyâs warning that an extended stay is too risky and the US called for a quick withdrawal.