Sharon, cabinet agree to major offensive in Gaza
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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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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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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned last night that his military forces would expand their deadliest Gaza offensive in four years, as the death toll reached more than 60 in Israel&#39;s bid to put an end to a Palestinian rocket campaign.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, the army&#39;s biggest and deadliest offensive in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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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 &#151; in which 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed &#151; will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that his government would implement his proposal to dismantle all the Israeli settlements in Gaza and four small ones in the West Bank on schedule.
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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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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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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won  cabinet backing on Sunday for a bill on the nuts and bolts of a  Gaza pullout, and hours later Israel launched a new raid in the  Palestinian territory, killing three and wounding 16.
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Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state &#151; a major step toward possibly reviving long-stalled peace talks.
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JERUSALEM  - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party and the opposition Labour agreed to form a national unity government, while at least eight Palestinians were killed during an Israeli army incursion in southern Gaza.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has agreed to scale back Israel&#39;s 2-week-old military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli news media reported Thursday night.
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In a major victory for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Knesset voted today to approve his Gaza withdrawal plan and vacate all settlements from the Gaza Strip and some from the West Bank by next year.
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Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip will be removed from their homes next summer, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Thursday, and in the meantime he said Israel will broaden its military offensive there.
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Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday agreed to press on with military raids and "targeted killings" in the Gaza Strip but had not ordered a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he will seek final Cabinet approval for a Gaza withdrawal in February, four months earlier than planned, and he threatened harsh retaliation if Palestinian militants try to disrupt the pullback.
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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 58 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed - will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal...