Hamas seeks to limit rocket fire at Gaza crossings
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Hamas's government in the Gaza Strip called on Thursday on Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets and mortar bombs at border crossings with Israel that are used to bring food and other supplies into the territory.
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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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The State Department called on Israel Friday to limit its military response to a rocket attack by Hamas that killed two small Israeli children.
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Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire by militants, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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Egypt will close its breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not stand in the way, a Hamas leader said.
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Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on  Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza  Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza  homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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Israeli missile strikes hit a succession of militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing two, while Hamas fired more rockets toward Israel. Palestinian factions met to discuss a possible truce with Israel.
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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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Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the territory, a government official said.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for Palestinian president, called on militants Sunday to stop firing rockets at Israel, as Israeli tanks and troops massed in northern Gaza in response to the latest barrage.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel would target all those responsible for cross-border rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, amid calls by top ministers to assassinate Hamas political leaders.
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Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the Palestinian territory, government officials said.
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Palestinian militants fired more rockets  and mortars into Jewish settlements in Gaza on Tuesday, hours  before new President Mahmoud Abbas was due in the area to urge  a cease-fire he hopes could revive peacemaking with Israel.
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Israel sought to put an end to a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza, sending its air force Friday against a symbol of Hamas power in the heart of Gaza City and simultaneously choking off shipments of fuel and food across its border with the strip.
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Hundreds of Hamas supporters protested on the breached Gaza-Egypt border Friday to demand it remain open, while Egyptian troops poured cement and laid down metal spikes in a new attempt to halt the influx of Gazans.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Armored vehicles massed on Gaza's border Friday after Israel's security Cabinet approved a large-scale military operation - dubbed "Days of Penitence" - to stop Palestinian rocket fire.    Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had ordered troops to "exact a price" from the militants, security officials said, after a Hamas rocket killed two children, ages 2 and 4, in an Israeli border town...