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 Egypt Works for Gaza Ceasefire 

Progress toward ceasefire after behind-the-scenes talks

Mar 12, 08 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Egypt is quietly working to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with its intelligence chief meeting with both Hamas and Israeli officials, allowing the two sides to formally deny that they are talking to each other, the Guardian reports. Israel is calling for a trial 30 days of calm... More »

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Israel • diplomacy • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • rocket attacks • Egypt • ceasefire • Gaza Egypt border

Israel Scales Back Gaza Offensive

Hamas rocket attacks slow, but Israelis say fighting isn't over

Mar 10, 08 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel is reining in its Gaza offensive after seeing a big reduction in cross-border rocket fire over the weekend, the BBC reports. But Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said there was no truce in place. “The fighting is ongoing and will at times increase or decrease,” he said,... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Ehud Barak • Israel and Palestinians • Qassam • ceasefire

'Holocaust' Strikes Will Intensify,
Warns Israel

PM invokes phrase
to threaten Hamas

Feb 29, 08 7:49 AM CST
(Newser) - As Israeli air strikes continued to hit Gaza targets overnight, a top Israel official warned that If Hamas continues to fire rockets at Israel, they "will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves." The rare use of the word... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Kadima • Likud • Palestinians • IDF • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • Matan Vilnai

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Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Gaza Strip

Rice voices concern after retaliatory strikes kill militants, baby

Feb 28, 08 11:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel hit targets inside the Gaza Strip today, including an apparent warning attack near the Hamas PM's home, after a rocket killed an Israeli student, Reuters reports. Two days of violence have left 17 Palestinians dead, including a 6-month-old baby who died when a strike on a Hamas-run ministry damaged... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Condoleezza Rice • rocket attacks • Palestinians • Sderot • airstrike

Gaza, Israel Spar Over Power Outage, Embargo

Israel resolute amid condemnations, worries situation could spin out of control

Jan 21, 08 8:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Gazans awoke to a second day without its main power plant or fuel as international leaders condemned the “collective punishment of the people of Gaza,” and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert resolutely said Gazans "will walk, without gas for their cars" until their "murderous regime's" rocket attacks... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • fuel • humanitarian crisis • Arab Israeli conflict • blockade

Lebanon Rocket Strikes Israel

Latest violence in advance of Bush visit

Jan 8, 08 5:02 AM CST
(Newser) - A rocket launched from Lebanon exploded in northern Israel before dawn today, causing no injuries but serving as a potential harbinger of other attacks in advance of President Bush's three-day trip to Israel that begins tomorrow. Israeli authorities blamed the attack on the Jihadi Badr Brigades, which also attacked from... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Palestine • rocket attacks • rocket • Arab Israeli conflict

Israel Takes Fight to Gaza

Four Palestinians dead after Israeli tanks and planes battle enter chaotic strip

Jun 20, 07 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli aircraft and tanks attacked locations in Gaza today, killing four militants in their first assault on the strip since Hamas took over. An Israeli aerial strike targeted two rocket launchers in northern Gaza as tanks moved into southern Gaza, sparking a shootout that produced the four casualties. More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • rocket attacks • West Bank • Mahmoud Zahar • aerial attacks • militant • ceasefire

Israel Detains
Senior Hamas Officials

Education Minister and two mayors among those arrested

May 24, 07 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli troops arrested 33 Hamas leaders—including several moderate politicians—in the West Bank overnight, as part of a continuing crackdown on the group following a deadly barrage of rocket attacks. The move suggests Israel is stepping up pressure on Hamas' political arm as it seeks to prevent the group's... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • rocket attacks • West Bank • arrest

Israel Targets Palestinian PM

All Hamas leaders fair game if rocket attacks don't cease, declares defense official

May 22, 07 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli government today threatened to assassinate the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, if rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip are not halted, reports the Guardian. Deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh declared on the radio, "There is no one who is in the circle of commanders and leaders in... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • rocket attacks

Israeli Strikes Kill 5 in Gaza

Hamas and Fatah continue to clash

May 18, 07 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel has launched air strikes at Gaza for a second day in response to continued Hamas rocket attacks. Helicopter gunships and fighter jets targeted militants, and at least five Hamas fighters were killed in the strikes. Hamas has fired about a hundred makeshift missiles into Israel in the past several... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • rocket attacks

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