Israel seizes Hamas leaders, violence goes on
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested the second Hamas cabinet minister in less than a week.
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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.
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Israeli forces seized control of parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a day after soldiers killed 14 Hamas fighters in the deadliest strike against the leading Palestinian militant group.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli troops seized a top Hamas militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn yesterday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Hamas militants, and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister in the West Bank as Gaza militants fired more rockets into Israel.
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Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group.
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Israeli forces arrest 18 people in a raid on the Palestinian military headquarters in Ramallah.
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Israeli troops detain a second Hamas member of the Palestinian cabinet, as strikes on Gaza kill three militants.
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Islamist Hamas fighters and looters ransacked the blood-spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday as their leader ordered an end to reprisals against their routed, Western-backed Fatah rivals.
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Israel carries out arrests and fresh air strikes in response to persistent rocket attacks from Gaza.
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Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas forces have seized the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egyptian border, further establishing its control of the Palestinian territory, Palestinian security sources told CNN today. As many as 70 Palestinians have been killed since the Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence escalated four days ago.
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Israeli forces concluded a four-day operation in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, capturing a senior Hamas commander who Israeli military officials said was the leader of a cell that was preparing a suicide bombing in Israel during the religious holiday.
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Israel dealt a double blow to the Hamas  group Wednesday, arresting a West Bank leader held responsible  for a twin suicide bus bombing that killed 16 and killing a  militant in a Gaza air strike.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.