Sharon says Israel to Expand its Gaza Offensive
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Israel will expand its offensive in Gaza, to stop Palestinian terrorists from firing rockets into southern Israel.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four years.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on  Sunday he was giving Israel's army free rein to battle  militants in Gaza, and the Palestinian leadership called for a  halt to attacks on Israelis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Tuesday that he would consider coordinating a pullout from the Gaza Strip with a new Palestinian leadership if it curbed attacks on Israelis.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said  Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern  Gaza, the army's biggest and deadliest offensive in more than  four years of conflict with the Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a coalition with Shimon Peres's  Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza  pullout.
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With troops poised to invade Gaza, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday ruled out bargaining with the captors of an Israeli soldier and promised a &quot;broad and ongoing&quot; military offensive.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today said he has ordered the army to step up its war on Palestinian militants ahead of a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel's prime minister says a military operation in Gaza will continue until Palestinian rocket attacks are stopped.
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Israel expanded its military offensive in northern Gaza with an air strike early on Monday on a militant stronghold that seriously wounded a senior Hamas leader and another activist, witnesses and medics said.
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Israel confirmed on Friday that Prime   Minister Ehud Olmert had ordered the army to expand its ground   offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon but said the decision   "does not exclude a diplomatic solution."
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Israel will keep troops in the Gaza Strip indefinitely to prevent Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns, Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, said yesterday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said the ongoing military raid of northern Gaza, which has already killed 56 Palestinians, should be expanded.
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Following consultation with senior security officials Thursday afternoon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided to widen the IDF&#39;s operation in the northern Gaza Strip in response the increasing attacks generating from the area.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said on Tuesday that he would consider coordinating a pullout  from the Gaza Strip with a new Palestinian leadership if it  curbed attacks on Israelis.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza  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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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned last night that his military forces would expand their deadliest Gaza offensive in four years, as the death toll reached more than 60 in Israel&#39;s bid to put an end to a Palestinian rocket campaign.