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Article: ARABS-ISRAEL - May 20 - Israel Vows To Increase Gaza Raids On Hamas.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- May 26, 2007
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The Israeli government announces that it will intensify its military operations in Gaza in an effort to halt Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire reached on May 19 appeared to take hold in Gaza, after a week of fierce factional fighting between Fatah and its rival, Hamas. The focus of the Israeli military operations will be on Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the factions that have been the main perpetrators of the rocket attacks, said Miri Eisin, spokeswoman for PM Ehud Olmert. She added that if the intensified operations were not successful, Israel's security cabinet would consider "more drastic steps". She would not specify what the intensified ...