Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday promised to release 250 Palestinian prisoners next month, making a goodwill gesture to the moderate Palestinian leadership in the West Bank even as Israel battles militants in the Gaza Strip. Olmert informed...
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Israel planned to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip despite continuing rocket attacks. At least eight Kassam rockets struck in the western Negev Monday. No one was injured but several homes on a kibbutz in the Eshkol Regional Council sustained...
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Saturday said that they would use force against Palestinian resistance forces that fire projectiles from the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Israel's occasional military incursions into the Strip. With a similar stance,...
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The Israeli air force attacked a Palestinian Hamas rocket crew in Gaza on Friday and Hamas rockets hit an Israeli city, in the 11th day of long-range skirmishes threatening to wreck a five-month-old truce. Palestinian medical workers said two Hamas fighters...
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A synagogue newly reopened in Jerusalem's Old City has worried Arab neighbors and Palestinian leaders who accuse Israel of using its political power to push them out and shift the city's religious balance in favor of Jews. Israelis say the work in the...
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Palestinian couple evicted from home of 50 years as Jerusalem settlers move in Britain, US and UN fail to stop Supreme Court decision Israeli police have evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from their home of 52 years in a Palestinian district...
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has decided to resume fuel shipments to Gaza's electricity plant despite continued rocket fire, after Gaza officials shut down the facility, cutting power to much of the Gaza Strip. Israel is the sole provider of industrial...
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Barak made the decision on Monday afternoon, following talks with Israeli security officials. The Israeli regime also decided to keep the costal strip's border crossings closed in response to what it called "rocket attacks on the Western Negev by Palestinian...
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The Palestinians and Israel promised on Sunday to carry on the peace negotiations that resumed a year ago at a U.S.-hosted Mideast conference, although a deal is not likely to be reached by the end of this year as expected. The promise was made by...
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The Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas staged a military parade on Sunday in the largest of Lebanon's 12 refugee camps, the scene of recent clashes with Islamists. The parade at Ain al-Hilweh on the outskirts of the southern port city...
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