Israel pulls back forces in northern Gaza
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Israel pulled most of its forces out of the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday after a four-day incursion and soldiers reopened main roads to Palestinian traffic, Palestinian security sources said.
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
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Israel's defense minister has ordered the temporary closure of all crossings into Gaza, cutting off supplies into the besieged strip in response to a slew of Palestinian rocket barrages at nearby Israeli towns
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Dubai, Oct. 16 (NNN): With the beginning of Muslim fasting month of Ramzan, Israeli troops are reported to have withdrawn completely from northern Gaza after a 16-day operation which saw the heaviest fighting there in four years.
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Israeli armored vehicles backed by  helicopters rolled into Palestinian-controlled areas of the  northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses  said.
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Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday, a day after the government decided to press on with raids but not order a massive assault in response to daily rocket attacks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday gave the go ahead to Israeli forces to withdraw from a teeming refugee camp and other heavily populated areas in northern Gaza, media reports said.
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Israeli forces pulled back on Thursday after a raid into the northern Gaza Strip a day earlier in which troops killed 11 people in clashes with local gunmen and prompted calls for revenge from Hamas militants.
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Israeli armored vehicles backed by helicopters rolled into Palestinian-controlled areas of the northern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses said.
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Palestinian security forces took up  positions across northern Gaza on Friday 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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Israel went after Palestinian militants in northern Gaza on Thursday with airstrikes, tanks, and infantry, Palestinian security officials said. The operation did not keep rockets from slamming into southern Israel.
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Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza  refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians,  including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it  launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish  settlements.
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Israeli soldiers finished pulling back from positions in major Palestinian refugee camps and cities in northern Gaza Friday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered a troop pullout from a refugee camp in Gaza. The order could signal an end to a two-week offensive in northern Gaza that has left more than 100 Palestinians dead.
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TEL AVIV -- Israeli forces took over a 5-mile-wide swath of the northern Gaza Strip yesterday and prepared for major operations against Palestinian groups that have been launching Qassam rockets at targets in southern Israel, signaling a sharp escalation in the conflict for which hard-liners on both sides have been pushing.
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Israel withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.
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Israel announced on Friday it was winding down its 17-day deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip, after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon observed the army&#39;s warning that staying more than that in crowded Palestinian areas was too risky.