Israel scales back its deadly offensive in Gaza
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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.
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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 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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GAZA CITY - Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip yesterday, following through on a promise to step up pressure on the territory's Hamas rulers after months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings in Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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JERUSALEM &#151; Israeli forces cut main Gaza roads on Thursday after militants fired rockets at an Israeli town, and soldiers tore down houses in a refugee camp on the Egyptian border.
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as the Israeli army pulls out.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces  out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest  offensives in four years of conflict, an incursion that began  16 days ago and has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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Israel withdrew its tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on late Friday, ending its bloody operation in the area.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected  his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to  avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings in Egyptian  resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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Israel said on Friday it had cut electricity supplies to Gaza as part of a campaign against militant attacks but stressed the reduction was minimal, amid international criticism.
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Israel began reducing fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip on Sunday under new economic sanctions to punish the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave for rocket fire on Israeli towns.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP (Gaza Strip) - 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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Israeli troops killed five armed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today as it pressed on with a massive offensive aimed at stopping militants firing rockets into Israel.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday after tearing up roads, flattening greenhouses and knocking down dozens of houses in a devastating two-day raid, part of Israel's expanding invasion of the northern Gaza Strip.    The Israeli offensive is in its third week and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told legislators Thursday that the campaign would continue and even be broadened...
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JABALYA, Gaza Strip  - Israel pulled most of its  forces out of the northern Gaza Strip Saturday after a four-day  incursion it said was staged to halt Palestinian rocket attacks  on southern Israeli towns.