Israel attacks Gaza; contacts new Abbas govt
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Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the occupied West Bank.
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Palestinian militants angry over Yasser  Arafat's death attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip  on Thursday in what they said signaled the start of a new round  of clashes against Israel.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza  on Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against  militants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse  internal resistance to his plan for withdrawing from some  occupied land.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least five fighters, and seized a Palestinian cabinet minister.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will  refuse to meet Mahmoud Abbas until the new Palestinian leader  moves against militant groups behind an attack that killed six  Israelis in Gaza, Sharon's spokesman said on Friday.
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ZIKKIM, Israel  - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded 30 soldiers in Israel, an attack likely to increase pressure on Israeli leaders to crack down on the Hamas-controlled territory.
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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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In an escalation of violence today, Israel attacked rocket launchers in Gaza and clashed with Palestinian militants.
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JERUSALEM, May 27 -- 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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Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers crossed into southern Gaza to strike at Palestinian militants on Thursday, a day after Israel's defense minister said a broad operation inside the territory was inevitable. Three militants were killed and 12 people were wounded in the fiercest clash.
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Israel stepped up its campaign against Hamas Islamists on Saturday, killing at least five fighters in the Gaza Strip in a wave of air strikes and seizing a Palestinian cabinet minister in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli and Palestinian security officials have begun indirect contacts aimed at ending a major Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, but the claim was denied by the Palestinians.
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Israeli president aims to shore up Abbas in wake of Hamas taking Gaza Strip.
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Gaza militants hit an army base in Israel with rocket fire Wednesday, wounding 12 soldiers, as they defied calls for a halt to attacks from Mahmoud Abbas, the frontrunner to succeed Yasser Arafat in elections Sunday.
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JERUSALEM Aug. 18, 2004  An unusual Israeli attack near the home of a Hamas activist in Gaza City killed five people Wednesday, including three Palestinian militants, witnesses and officials said. The strike came just before Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...
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Gunmen smashed windows, burned buses and looted computers belonging to a private American school in Gaza before dawn Saturday, an attack officials believed was linked to President Bush's visit to the West Bank earlier this week.
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Israeli missiles pounded the Gaza Strip on Friday, one of which hit near the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, as Palestinian factions argued among themselves over whether to stop firing rockets into Israel.