Israel Ends Deadly Gaza Offensive
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the pullback at the urging of Israeli military commanders, who argued the two-week offensive had played itself out, and after calls from the United States to wrap up the operation...
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Israelâs largest and bloodiest offensive in Gaza in four years of conflict moved into its third week with missile strikes that killed four Palestinians, and troops dug into the northern end of the crowded territory.
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Israeli forces ended an operation in the northern Gaza Strip less then 24 hours after they raided the area to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, the army said Monday.
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Israeli troops pull back from the Gaza refugee camp of Jabaliya after a three-day operation against militants.
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GAZA CITY: The Israeli army killed one Palestinian in an air raid and demolished at least 35 houses in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as Israel shut down for Judaismâs most solemn day of Yom Kippur.
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A truce between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday, heralding a possible end to a wave of rocket attacks on the Jewish state and a halt to a five-month-old Israeli military offensive.
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Israeli troops and armor crossed into the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing five militants from the Islamist Hamas group, which controls the coastal Palestinian territory.
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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 withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.
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Israel said Friday it was easing a  crushing offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians  since tanks rumbled into northern Gaza 16 days ago to stop  militants from launching cross-border rocket attacks.
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They ended an assault in the northern Gaza Strip that lasted 17 days and killed 114 Palestinians. The fighting also left five Israelis and one Thai laborer dead.
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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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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops moved out of a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Gaza last night, the army said, ending a two-day raid that killed 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens, the largest Israeli military operation since Yasser Arafat's death last month.
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Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the military operation here entered its 16th day. The Israeli offensive is aimed at ending rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants.
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip : At least 24 Palestinians and three Israelis were killed in fierce battles in the northern Gaza Strip during a massive army raid which Israel vowed would be an open-ended operation.
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The truce is expected to end the five-month Israeli military offensive into Gaza and rocket attacks from Palestinian militants