Israel closes Gaza crossings, blocks aid shipments
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from leaving the Hamas-controlled territory in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
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Lorries carrying fuel pass into Gaza as Israel eases its blockade following international pressure.
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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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Palestinian officials say they could be forced to cut health services as Israel halts fuel shipments
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Border crossings crucial to the impoverished Gaza Strip's economic survival remained shut Monday, three days after the Hamas militant movement routed Fatah security forces and took over the densely populated Palestinian territory.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian forces began closing the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stemming the flow of Palestinians across the frontier breached by Hamas Islamists last month, witnesses said.
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Israel would like to sever its  remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip  after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt,  a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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Gaza's main power plant shut down completely on Sunday after Israel closed the borders of the Hamas-controlled territory and blocked fuel supplies, Palestinian officials said.
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Israel began restricting fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ostensibly in retaliation for rocket attacks on its territory, according to European Union and Palestinian sources.
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Israel agreed to allow supplies of some fuel and medicine into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, easing for at least one day a blockade that plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests.
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The main power plant in Gaza begins shutting down due to fuel shortages caused by Israel's border closures.
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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, defense officials said Friday.
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Israel confirms that it has started cutting fuel supplies to Gaza, an attempt to stop the firing of militants' rockets.
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Israel, under pressure from the United States, agreed to marginally loosen restrictions at Gaza's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday, but did not make any longer-term commitment to keep the frontier open.
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Gaza City awoke Monday to shuttered bread shops and gas stations, prompting fears of a humanitarian crisis as Israel pressed ahead with efforts to stop Palestinian rocket fire, refusing to reopen crossings or allow in crucial fuel supplies
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Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from returning to Gaza from a trip abroad on Thursday to stop him bringing in money donated by Iran.