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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: 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....