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DEBKAfile
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October 28, 2007, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
One, a soldier, was seriously hurt in the attack claimed by Fatah-al Aqsa. The shooters in a commercial van zigzagged wildly down the road, raking Israeli vehicles with gunfire. At Ariel, the van U-turned and fired at the soldiers waiting at the Ariel hitchhikers' post on the Trans-Shomron Highway before ...
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October 24, 2007, 8:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
This first Palestinian conspiracy to kill an Israeli prime minister was directed at Ehud Olmert's June meeting with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho. The Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported to the cabinet that Israel caught two of the five would-be assassins and, acting on Shin Bet information, ...
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October 21, 2007, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
A Palestinian fishing boat crewed by Hamas gunmen ambushed and fired on Israeli naval craft off the coast of Rafah, Gaza Strip Thursday. Fire was returned. No one was hurt. This was the first Hamas attack on Israeli vessels blockading Gaza against arms smuggling.
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October 16, 2007, 5:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview with Palestinian TV Oct. 10, Abbas spelled out the precise Palestinian demands for the first time. Israel must withdraw from all pre-1967 territory. The Palestinians demand all of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, plus an area inside the "no man's land" for a future Palestinian state. ...
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October 9, 2007, 7:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report exclusively that Hamas has managed in three months to whip up an integrated armed force under its sole command from its own and the Gaza Strip's Fatah-dominated security and intelligence bodies.
A Fatah defector Gen. Tawfiq Jabar commands the force. In contrast, the Palestinian ... 
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October 6, 2007, 9:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
While still divided on core issues of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas were reported to have agreed in Jerusalem Wednesday, Oct. 3, that the conference would mark the take-off of negotiations on a permanent settlement without limitation on time or agenda ...
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October 5, 2007, 7:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Rakad Mahmoud Salameh, aka "Abu Mahmoud" or "Rakad Salam," walks free Monday, Oct. 1, along with 90 jailed Palestinians, whose release prime minister Ehud Olmert and vice PM Haim Ramon ordered as a Ramadan gesture for Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The next Olmert-Abbas meeting takes place the following day, ...
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October 5, 2007, 3:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was immersed this week in dead-end dialogue with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, in obedience to the United States and European powers, the Hamas applied the finishing touches to a single integrated armed force by merging its armed branches with the former Palestinian Authority ...
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October 2, 2007, 11:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
An Israel soldier was slightly injured in the Hamas small arms and grenade assault. The attackers were bent on killing Israeli soldiers and if possible kidnap one or more. debkafile's military sources report this was the first time a Hamas unit had initiating this form of attack Israel ...
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September 30, 2007, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian security officers found the missiles and launchers between the West Bank Al Aida refugee camp and Beit Jala which abuts on the Jerusalem district of Gilo and handed them to the IDF. The 22 mm 1.5 meters-long missiles were marked "Allah is great." Israeli forces quickly carried out controlled ...
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September 26, 2007, 6:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, Kerem Shalom took two mortar rounds, a missile was fired on Sderot, and gunfire and an anti-tank missile targeted an IDF border patrol south of the Karni crossing. No casualties on either day.
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September 24, 2007, 7:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Fares Mansour, Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades activist, was detained in Kalil village outside Nablus, for violating the terms of his reprieve and reverting to terrorist activity. Found in his hideout were eight explosive devices, a rifle and a pistol.
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September 24, 2007, 10:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said to everyone in sight that he will not attend the Washington peace conference the White House is promoting for November unless he is assured of progress on core issues and on Palestinian statehood. Otherwise, he says, the event is futile. Without him, ...
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September 17, 2007, 10:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tzahi Hanegbi: We cannot tolerate the shooting on our southern border. Sooner or later we will have to take hard decisions, including stopping "the pampering of Gaza's inhabitants" - a reference to proposals to shut down Israel-supplied power whenever a missile is fired. "Looking after our own poor must come ...
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August 29, 2007, 8:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
The deputy security service chief told the ministers Sunday, Aug. 26, that since Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip two months ago, Palestinian terrorist groups had managed to smuggle in 40 tons of explosives - and, most recently, 150 recoilless propelled grenade launchers, RPGs.
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August 28, 2007, 3:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The two suiciders used ropes to climb over the border fence near Netiv Ha'asara north of Gaza and hurled grenades at the Coordination Command Office at Erez. The Golani Brigade cornered the pair and shot them dead. One soldier was injured in the shootout. Fatah-al Aqsa, the Democratic Front and ...
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August 27, 2007, 2:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
In both cases, the Palestinian gunmen, including the Jihad Jenin commander, were killed when they began shooting at Israeli undercover units come to detain wanted terrorists. A Bedouin boy was killed in the crossfire.
debkafile reports the rising violence on the West Bank points up the inability of Mahmoud ... 
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August 26, 2007, 3:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
As life in areas abutting the Gaza Strip becomes increasingly hellish and dangerous, their Israeli inhabitants feel as though they live in a forgotten land.
debkafile sources report this sensation was dramatized Saturday, Aug. 25, by the display of astonishing new Palestinian military capabilities and their determination to ...
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August 19, 2007, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Parts of Gaza City are dark. Since Wednesday, Israel has prevented fuel trucks from approaching the crossing.
debkafile reports that all the crossings into Gaza are constantly battered by Palestinian missiles and mortars. Friday, a Qassam missile exploded outside the Nahal Oz gateway after rounds of mortar fire.
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August 18, 2007, 11:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
The mouth of the tunnel was discovered 700 meters inside the Gaza border outside Beit Lahiya. It was dug under tomato greenhouses of Netiv Ha'Asara north of Gaza. Israeli intelligence believes the subterranean passage was intended to carry infiltrators under the border for attacks against an Israeli town to the ...
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