Israel flattens Hamas ministry in Gaza Strip
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Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas overran two government ministries on Sunday, sealed off the area around his home and battled gunmen from the ruling Hamas group as chaos threatened Gaza.
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Israel's military is to cut off electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in response to continued rocket attacks from Hamas.
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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.
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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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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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A top Israeli defense official said Thursday that Israel wants to relinquish all responsibility for the Gaza Strip, including the supply of electricity and water, now that the territory's southern border with Egypt has been opened.
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Hamas' path in consolidating control in the Gaza Strip:
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Israel said today that it had begun to scale back its 17-day military operation into the northern Gaza Strip after the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians, but Gaza
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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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Israel announced on Friday it was sharply reducing its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end attacks on Israelis.
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.
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Israel on Wednesday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest-ranking of more than 30 officials in the Hamas-led government jailed as part of a crackdown on the Islamic militant group.
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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 has decided to scale back its bloody two-week military operation in northern Gaza, its largest operation there in four years of fighting.
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A Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip  broke ranks with other ultra-nationalists and accepted  government terms to be relocated to Israel rather than staying  put in defiance, officials said Sunday.