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Six Months of Rising Mideast Tensions
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006; 10:29 AM
Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed up to seven Israelis in Lebanese border violence on Wednesday, inflaming Middle East tensions.
Here is a short chronology of the Middle East conflict since the beginning of the year.
Jan. 25 - Islamic militant group Hamas defeats Fatah movement of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas in first Palestinian parliamentary election in a decade.
March 29 - Abbas swears in Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his government.
June 9 - Hamas armed wing calls off 16-month-old truce after seven family members are killed on a Gaza beach during a day of Israeli shelling. Israel denies responsibility for the deaths.
June 13 - Israel kills 11 Palestinians, nine of them civilians, in a missile strike on a van carrying militants and rockets in Gaza.
June 25 - Gaza militants launch deadly raid into Israel, killing two soldiers and capturing Corporal Gilad Shalit. Three days later Israel pushes into Gaza.
June 29 - Israeli troops in the West Bank detain one third of the Palestinian cabinet and nearly two dozen Hamas lawmakers.
July 3 - Israeli forces move into northern Gaza. Three days later the offensive is expanded after a rocket fired by Hamas hits the Israeli city of Ashkelon for the first time.
July 8 - Haniyeh calls for a ceasefire with Israel. Jewish state says militants must first free the captured soldier and halt rocket attacks.
July 12 - Hezbollah guerrillas capture two Israeli soldiers and kill up to seven around the Lebanese border. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls it an "act of war" by Lebanon.
-- Israel broadens Gaza offensive and cuts the strip in two. Attacks, including an air raid that kills nine family members, take the Palestinian toll from the offensive to well over 70.
