Israel extends offensive in Gaza
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Israeli forces thrust into a town in north Gaza and kill a Hamas militant, as a Palestinian schoolgirl dies of her wounds.
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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 at least 61 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed - will help clear the way for an Israeli withdrawal...
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Israel pushed more forces into Gaza today after the deadliest day in more than two years in the Middle East.
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The Israeli death toll in a Palestinian attack in central Gaza has risen to six, the Israeli army said on Friday.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened Thursday to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip if fighters continue using the Palestinian territory for rocket attacks on southern Israel. Earlier in the day, Israeli troops supported by tanks, artillery and fighter...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel stepped up air strikes in its Gaza offensive, killing an Islamic Jihad leader, while backtracking on charges that militants used a UN ambulance to haul a rocket.
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Two more Palestinians die in the continuing Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, witnesses say.
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Israeli forces pressed ahead yesterday with one of the biggest offensives in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting, killing 10 Palestinians in dawn-to-dusk gunbattles and airstrikes, according to officials from both sides.
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Israeli troops shot dead two Gaza Strip militants Sunday hours after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to expand a huge offensive that has killed at least 49 Palestinians in an attempt to stop rocket fire.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said  Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, one of  the army's deadliest offensives in more than four years of  conflict with the Palestinians.
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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...
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Israel's prime minister says a military operation in Gaza will continue until Palestinian rocket attacks are stopped.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Sheilah Kast talks with NPR&#39;s Julie McCarthy about Israel&#39;s ongoing offensive in the Gaza strip. Is really Prime Minister Ariel&#39;&#39;s around today called for an expansion of an army operation
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JERUSALEM Israeli forces continued a major operation in Gaza on Thursday with tanks and armored vehicles to suppress rocket fire into Israel, and in the process killed seven Palestinians, while another Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the West
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Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians. briefed him on Israel&#39;s biggest and bloodiest military campaign in the Gaza Strip in four years of open conflict.
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Palestinian resistance operations against the Israeli forces have been escalated. News reports in Gaza said five Israeli soldiers and one woman settlers were killed in three separate clashes in Beit Hanoun
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Four Palestinians, including an 11-year-year-old boy, were killed on Thursday as the Israeli army widened a major offensive in the northern Gaza Strip designed to halt rocket attacks by Hamas fighters.