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Title: Gaza truce proposed after Israeli shell kills 30
Tags:ap france & egypt & gaza city & hamas & initiative & militants & mortar shells & onslaught & palestinians
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GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) -- France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood....

Title: Egypt and France propose plan to end Gaza conflict
Tags:bernard kouchner & conflict & egypt & french foreign minister & gaza & hamas & presidents & united nations
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The presidents of Egypt and France have proposed a plan to end the escalating Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday....

Title: Wanted: Border monitors to oversee Gaza truce
Tags:cease fire & contours & diplomacy & hamas & international guarantees & israel & jerusalem
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- The contours of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas are emerging, with diplomacy focusing on international guarantees, including foreign border monitors to oversee any agreement....

Title: Diplomats seek truce as Gaza's civilian toll rises
Tags:air offensive & gaza city gaza strip & gaza strip & hamas & hospital corridors & israel & rulers & shell
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel's expanding ground and air offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers took a heavy civilian toll Monday, including three young brothers reported killed by a crashing shell and wounded who filled hospital corridors....

Title: Thunder of artillery signals ground push on Gaza
Tags:big guns & darkness & gaza & hamas & israel & phantoms & pummeling & rulers & seven days & sky & sun & tanks
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NIR AM, Israel (AP) -- The big guns began to thunder as the reddening sun lowered in the sky. After darkness fell, tanks moved like clumsy phantoms toward the border. After seven days of pummeling Gaza from the air, Israel unsheathed its land forces Saturday, raising its war against Gaza's Hamas rulers to a new level....

Title: Rockets are again at the heart of a Mideast war
Tags:cairo egypt & gaza & hamas & hezbollah & iran & israel & lebanese group & militant group & missile arsenal & range weapons & rockets & syria & tunnels
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Most of the Hamas rockets targeted at Israel are rudimentary, cobbled together in small metal shops in densely populated Gaza. But a growing number are more sophisticated, longer-range weapons, believed made from parts thought to originate in Syria or Iran and smuggled in through tunnels from Egypt. Despite that new capacity, Hamas' missile arsenal is still much smaller than that of another anti-Israeli militant group, Hezbollah. The Lebanese group, also supported b...

Title: Israelis feel empowered by attacks against Hamas
Tags:aerial assault & frustration & gaza & hamas & helplessness & israel & jerusalem & rocket attacks & vindication
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's crushing aerial assault on Gaza has caused a significant shift in the country's mood, replacing lingering helplessness and frustration over Hamas rocket attacks with a sense of might and vindication....

Title: Israeli airstrike kills a top Hamas leader
Tags:decision makers & gaza city gaza strip & gaza strip & hamas & israeli army & israeli warplane & pound bomb
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli warplane dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on the home of one of Hamas' top five decision-makers Thursday, instantly killing him and 18 others, while the Israeli army said troops massed on the Gaza border were ready for any order to invade....

Title: Israelis get creative in coping with rocket threat
Tags:ashkelon israel & banquet halls & bomb shelters & day care centers & hamas & hundreds of thousands & israel & israelis & motorists & new ways & parents & rocket range & shells & southern cities & weddings
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ASHKELON, Israel (AP) -- Banquet halls have canceled weddings, parents are holding makeshift day care centers in bomb shelters and motorists avoid driving during the day. As Hamas shells southern cities, hundreds of thousands of Israelis in rocket range are finding new ways of coping....

Title: Israel moves forward and sends more troops to Gaza
Tags:cease fire & gaza city gaza strip & gaza strip & hamas & israel & military assault & rulers & truce & world leaders
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel sent more troops to the Gaza border Wednesday, rapidly moving forward with preparations for a possible ground offensive as the next stage of its military assault on the coastal territory's Hamas rulers. Israel rebuffed calls by world leaders for a truce, and Hamas also was cold to a cease-fire....

Title: US, UN, EU and Russia urge immediate Gaza truce
Tags:conflict & gaza & hamas & international efforts & israel & key world & mideast peace & pace & southern israel & united nations
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Key world powers trying to promote Mideast peace urged Israel and Hamas on Tuesday to immediately stop fighting in Gaza and southern Israel, the United Nations announced as international efforts to calm the conflict picked up pace....

Title: Israel weighs 48-hour halt to Gaza air campaign
Tags:air campaign & gaza city gaza strip & gaza strip & ground troops & hamas & israel & israeli officials & palestinian militants & rocket attacks & rocket fire & southern israel & targets
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop their rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday. Any offer would be coupled with a threat to send in ground troops if the rocket fire continues....