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BBC News
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Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed.
Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th..
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MSNBC
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Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad i..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements. Move seen as rush to make changes before US summit.
The Israeli army has ordered the seizure of Palestinian land surrounding four West Bank villages apparently in order to hugely expand settlements aro..
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USA Today
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The United States soon will begin training officers of a Palestinian security service to better protect officials visiting the West Bank, the State Department said Sunday.
The training is part of a U.S. effort to bolster moderate Palestinian President..
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BBC News
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Tony Blair is heading to the Middle East for the first time as special envoy for the region, trying to build foundations for a Palestinian state.
The former prime minister will visit Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian town of Ramallah in the West Bank...
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Al Jazeera
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She said Olmert would present the final list of prisoners to be released to a ministerial committee on Tuesday and that the releases could begin as early as Friday after a 48-hour legal review.
Israel has described its decisions to free 250 low-securi..
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FOX News
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners, officials said, in the government's latest gesture of support for moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the Hamas militant group.
However, t..
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Al Jazeera
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On Monday a Palestinian was shot dead and 10 others wounded at the crossing, Palestinian medical sources said.
The Israeli army said armed men from the Palestinian side opened fire at the people in an attempt to force them to return them to Gaza...
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USA Today
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The Bush administration said Monday it would end a year-long embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government, which no longer includes members of the militant Hamas movement that seized control of Gaza last week.
The announcement was part of a broa..
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Washington Post
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Leaders of the Hamas and Fatah parties began operating parallel Palestinian governments Friday after days of intense factional fighting that have sharply defined the political and geographic divisions undermining the Palestinian drive for statehood.
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CNN
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Fighting between Palestinian factions is worse than ever and can produce no winner, a senior Palestinian official said Tuesday.
Saeb Erakat spoke as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held emergency meetings and weighed options, including pu..
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BBC News
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More than 30 senior officials from the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been detained by Israeli forces in overnight raids in the West Bank.
Those taken, mainly in Nablus, include the Palestinian education minister, three lawmakers and three mayor..
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Washington Post
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Israel this week allowed the Palestinian party Fatah to bring into the Gaza Strip as many as 500 fresh troops trained under a U.S.-coordinated program to counter Hamas, the radical Islamic movement that won Palestinian parliamentary elections last year. F..
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BBC News
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Palestinian gunmen from militant group Hamas have attacked pro-Fatah forces near the Gaza-Israel border, killing at least eight people, reports say.
Pro-Fatah security officials described the attack as a major Hamas ambush on a Presidential Guards trai..
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CNN
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An Egyptian-brokered truce ended within hours early Monday when shooting resumed between rival Hamas and Fatah militias, leaving two gunmen dead and 10 others wounded, Palestinian security sources said. Violence between the factions left four dead on Sund..
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USA Today
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Hamas militants have suspended a TV program that featured a Mickey Mouse lookalike urging Palestinian children to fight Israel and work for global Islamic domination, the Palestinian information minister said Wednesday.
Information Minister Mustafa Bar..
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FOX News
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A U.S. document proposing a detailed May-to-August timeline for easing Palestinian movement and improving Israeli security was being reviewed by the Palestinian leadership on Saturday, even as the top Hamas leader dismissed the plan as a "farce."
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SF Gate
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in interviews published Friday that Israel would not allow a single Palestinian refugee to return to what is now Israel, and that the country bore no responsibility for the refugees because their plight resulted from an att..
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CNN
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Tuesday blamed the United States for backing "an undeclared decision" to topple the Hamas-led Palestinian government through early elections...
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BBC News
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A new audio message purported to be from Osama Bin Laden has called for Muslims to continue the fight to liberate Palestinian lands.
In a tape marking Israel's 60th anniversary, the speaker pledged to continue fighting the Israelis and not give up "a s..
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