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Israel approved a cutoff of fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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The United Nations called on Israel to stop its daily air violations of Lebanese airspace.
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The UN warned that the situation in Gaza was deteriorating fast in a way that undermined potential progress in planned peace talks, and Israel’s defense minister approved sanctions against Gaza, including cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel.

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The Israeli military ordered the seizure of vast new swaths of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
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Israel declared the Gaza Strip a “hostile entity.”
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The Israeli cabinet agreed to free about 90 Palestinian prisoners in a move aimed at boosting support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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Syria lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Tuesday over a “flagrant violation” of its airspace last week by Israeli warplanes, which dropped munitions on its territory.
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An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children as they approached a rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday afternoon, witnesses and paramedics said.
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Israeli civilians started launching tomatoes, eggs, cucumbers, mangoes, corn on the cob, and eggs into Palestine. “We decided to take things into our own hands,” they said.

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Iran’s Jews refused cash offers by Israel in exchange for migration to Israel.
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Israel’s cabinet voted Sunday to release 250 Palestinian prisoners from President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization, as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian leader who is locked in political battle with the rival Hamas movement.
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One third of occupied Israeli territory lies outside of their legally allocated land.
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Palestinian government workers received full salaries for the first time in seventeen months. Palestinian President Mahmound Abbas is refusing to pay salaries to nineteen thousand government workers allied with Hamas.
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The outgoing Israeli President signed a plea bargain admitting to “indecent acts.” He will not be indicted for the rape he is accused of committing.
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Bush set a new goal for Iraq-to be like Israel.
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At least ten Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip earlier today.
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Hamas offered a ceasefire with Israel if Israel halted operations in Gaza and the West Bank, and Abbas refused to engage in diplomatic discussions with Hamas, calling Hamas: “murderous terrorists, killers and coup seekers.” He also told Israel to back off. “Our problems are not only with Hamas — I emphasize my rejection of any Israeli attempt aiming to take advantage of this disdain, perpetrated by the coup militants, to choke our people,” he said.
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Israel and the United States tacitly agreed on a policy to treat the West Bank and Gaza as separate entities.
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At least two Katyusha rockets fell on northern Israel Sunday, the first fired from Lebanon since last summer’s inconclusive war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Victorious Hamas gunmen rounded up senior military leaders of the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip early Friday, then announced a general amnesty in a sign the Islamic movement is seeking to reconcile with its secular rivals after five days of fierce fighting.
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