Israel expects slew of militant attacks before Gaza pullout
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government said it expects an upsurge in attacks by Palestinian hardliners ahead of its Gaza withdrawal, as a top Hamas fighter&#39;s assassination triggered an immediate response with a rocket attack.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback  from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed  a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep  militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel's defense minister has ordered the temporary closure of all crossings into Gaza, cutting off supplies into the besieged strip in response to a slew of Palestinian rocket barrages at nearby Israeli towns
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Israel is going to slow its planned pullout from five West Bank towns after a day of violence strained an informal cease-fire, and will stop the process altogether if Palestinians don't halt all attacks on Israeli targets, Israeli security officials said Tuesday.
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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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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  ordered the army to hunt down Palestinian militants after 16  people were killed in back-to-back suicide bombings by the  militant Islamic Hamas group.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israeli troops would escalate attacks on Gaza militants in response to continued cross-border rocket fire, raising tensions before President George W. Bush's visit.
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Israel's Vice Premier Haim Ramon said on Monday a "combination of steps" could topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders within months.
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Israel plans to resume its campaign to assassinate Hamas leaders in response to back-to-back suicide bombings by a Palestinian militant group that killed 16 people, security sources say.
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Responding to growing threats of insubordination, Israel's army chief announced Thursday he'll expel officers and soldiers who refuse to participate in a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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Israel has stepped up preparations for a possible military incursion into Gaza over concerns that fighting between Palestinian factions may lead to renewed attacks on Israel, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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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 leaders vowed on Monday to step up their war against Hamas and predicted the Islamists' grip on the Gaza Strip would end within months.
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Israeli security officials say Israel plans to resume its campaign to kill Hamas leaders, after Tuesday&#39;s suicide bus bombings in the southern town of Beersheva that killed at least 16 people and wounded about 100 others.
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GAZA CITY : Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei warned Israel to expect a &quot;justified retaliation&quot; from Hamas after 14 of the Islamist movement&#39;s fighters were killed in an air strike in Gaza.