Sharon Authorizes Army Crackdown on Militants
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said  Sunday he was giving Israel's army free rein to battle  militants in Gaza and accused the new Palestinian leadership he  now shuns of doing nothing to stop attacks on Israelis.
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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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Just hours after a deadly army raid on a Gaza refugee camp, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Israeli lawmakers to approve his plan for a unilateral withdrawal from the disputed coastal strip.
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Israel's army received approval Monday to broaden its ground operations against Gaza Strip militants who have been barraging Israeli border towns with deadly rocket fire, military officials said.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has indicated he is dropping a demand that Palestinians crack down on militant groups before he will resume peace talks.
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Israeli troops killed five Palestinian  militants in gun battles Monday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  sought to dampen rising pressure for a referendum on his plan  to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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TEL AVIV, Israel Oct. 2, 2004 - Israel&#39;s army will operate in the northern Gaza Strip until all Palestinian rocket fire against Israeli towns is halted, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said late Saturday in an interview on Israel Radio.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon signaled that he is dropping what was once his key demand for resuming peace talks - a Palestinian crackdown on militant groups.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, under growing pressure to rein in militants, ordered his security forces Monday to prevent attacks on Israel and investigate a deadly shooting of Israeli civilians last week.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lifted a  ban on contacts with the Palestinians after new leader Mahmoud  Abbas ordered Gaza security forces to halt attacks on Israelis,  and officials from both sides met within hours.
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Palestinian security forces took up  positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant  attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel announced yesterday that it would curtail offensive operations against Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to halt attacks on the Jewish state, marking a significant step toward a full-scale cease-fire between the two sides.
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Palestinian security forces intend to disarm militant factions as part of a plan to prevent attacks on Israelis, a senior Palestinian security official said Tuesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, under growing pressure to rein in militants, ordered his security forces yesterday to prevent attacks on Israel and investigate a deadly shooting of Israeli civilians last week.
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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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Palestinian security forces took up positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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JERUSALEM -- Responding to death threats against government ministers, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered law enforcement agencies yesterday to crack down on Jewish extremists opposed to the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.