Israel declares Gaza "enemy entity" as Rice visits
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Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called Israel "the Zionist enemy" for the first time Tuesday after an Israeli tank killed seven Palestinian youths in a Gaza strawberry field.
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defense minister said on Thursday.
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the coastal strip on Friday in an intensified campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Israel killed 15 Palestinians, nearly all of them militants, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, dealing its deadliest blow to Hamas in more than a year in raids that followed a peace mission by U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers crossed into southern Gaza to strike at Palestinian militants on Thursday, a day after Israel's defense minister said a broad operation inside the territory was inevitable. Three militants were killed and 12 people were wounded in the fiercest clash.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel Sunday, delivering Bush's two-state vision.
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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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Condoleezza Rice will offer to help  Palestinian leaders end anti-Israeli militant attacks on Monday  on the first visit in three years of a U.S. secretary of state  to the seat of the Palestinian Authority.
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Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the West Bank.
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AMMAN -- Israel warned yesterday it would stop dealing with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if he goes ahead with plans to join Hamas in a new government, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab allies sought a way to break the Hamas logjam and push forward the stalled peace process.
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Israel also mounted new air attacks in Gaza today as part of its efforts to stop rocket fire by Palestinian militants.
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JERUSALEM -- Mahmoud Abbas, the leading Palestinian presidential candidate, described Israel yesterday as ''the Zionist enemy" in reaction to the shelling by Israeli troops of a town in the Gaza Strip -- while he was campaigning in Gaza -- that left seven people dead, including an 11-year-old, a 12-year-old, and three teenagers.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 19 -- Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday declared the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity" and said it would begin cutting electricity and fuel to the Hamas-run territory in an effort to stop near-daily rocket fire into Israel.
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Israel has threatened to cut back fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip, putting visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice squarely in the middle of the two sidesâ latest faceoff.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Israel on Tuesday to end its retaliatory incursion into Gaza, while U.S. diplomats at the United Nations vetoed an Arab resolution designed to end the operation.