Sharon Wins Cabinet Vote on Gaza, New Raid Mounted
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won  cabinet backing on Sunday for a bill on the nuts and bolts of a  Gaza pullout, and hours later Israel launched a new raid in the  Palestinian territory, killing three and wounding 16.
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Five more Palestinians were killed Thursday in Gaza as Israel pushed on with a massive operation in the north of the territory, as Ariel Sharon said he opposed holding a national referendum on his so-called disengagement plan.
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Israel&#39;s plan to pull out of Gaza next year passed a crucial test on Thursday when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon easily won party approval to ask the more moderate Labor party to join his coalition.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon was savouring a dramatic victory for his Gaza pullout plan on Wednesday after MPs gave the green light to the first ever evacuation of occupied Palestinian territory.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon rejected  calls from within his mutinous cabinet on Wednesday for a  referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support  to uproot settlements from land claimed by Palestinians.
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Palestinians in Gaza fired two more  makeshift rockets at Israel on Wednesday and Israeli Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army to press on with a  week-old offensive that has killed 75 Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed  on Sunday to expand an offensive in Gaza that has killed 55  Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets into Israel.
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The Israeli parliament on Tuesday approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank in 2005, televised results showed.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to seek parliamentary approval for his new cabinet shortly.
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Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday decided to press on with military raids and "targeted killings" in the Gaza Strip but had not ordered a large-scale assault in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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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.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, the army&#39;s biggest and deadliest offensive in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israel's parliament on Wednesday approved a nearly $1 billion financial package to pay for withdrawing Israeli troops and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, delivering a major victory to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to vacate settlements for the first time in 23 years.
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Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s proposal to pull out of the Gaza strip received a major boost on Friday when he won approval from his Likud party to form a broader coalition with opposition parties.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon walks through the halls of his Jerusalem office to attend the weekly cabinet meeting, Sunday Oct. 24, 2004.
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ARIEL Sharon won a striking victory yesterday when the Knesset approved his plan to evacuate Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip by a 67-45 vote, a wider margin than supporters had hoped for.
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A compensation plan for Israeli settlers who will be uprooted from the Gaza Strip was approved Sunday by Israel&#39;s cabinet. This hands Prime Minister Ariel Sharon an important political victory before the Knesset votes on the pullout plan on Tuesday.