General Strike Paralyzes Israel, Ignores Sharon Call
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Israel's labor unions staged a  nationwide general strike on Tuesday, grounding all  international air traffic, paralyzing financial markets and  public services and even preventing burial of the dead.
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Israel closed border crossings with the Gaza Strip and destroyed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry on Friday in what witnesses said was an air strike, stepping up what it says is a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza on Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against militants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse internal resistance
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad coalition with the Labour opposition.
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GAZA: A militant leader survived an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza overnight in Israel&#39;s first assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since Yasser Arafat died in a Paris hospital.
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Palestinian fighters wounded 12 soldiers  in a rocket attack on Israel Wednesday, ignoring calls for a  cease-fire from Mahmoud Abbas, the frontrunner to succeed  Yasser Arafat in Sunday elections.
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Brushing aside mounting pressures for a nationwide referendum on his disengagement plan, a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ruled out any such possibility along with calls for new elections.
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Israeli air strikes killed 17 people in   Lebanon on Monday and Hizbollah announced more rocket attacks   on Israel after world powers put the onus on the Syrian- and   Iranian-backed Shi'ite guerrilla group to end the fighting.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 11 -- The Israeli government resisted calls Tuesday from hawkish lawmakers and angry citizens to begin a broad assault on the Gaza Strip after a pre-dawn rocket strike on an army training base wounded 69 soldiers on their last day of boot camp.
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Israeli unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday expected to affect about 400,000 public sector workers and severely hamper international travel.
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Israel dismisses early rocket fire as hiccups but warns it will retaliate if  attacked by Palestinian militants
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lost an important budget vote Wednesday in Parliament that imperils his government but does not quite collapse it.
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Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected a Hamas ceasfire offer asserting that the army will continue operations in Gaza to insure the safety of Israeli citizens even as five Palestinians, including a Hamas militant, were killed in two
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Israel launched air strikes targeting Palestinian rocket launch sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first air strikes since Hamas seized control of the territory last week.
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Israel killed three members of a Gazan family in a botched air strike on Wednesday and shot dead a West Bank militant leader a day after Palestinians said some of the worst violence since late 2006 could hurt peace moves.
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Israel was paralysed by a general strike as trade unions imposed a shutdown in protest at local authorities' failure to pay thousands of staff amid a budget clampdown by the right-wing government.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza  Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against militants  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse internal  resistance to his plan for withdrawing from some occupied land.