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For the first time in 10 years, Israel said Tuesday it will build a new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel is ready to release many jailed Palestinians in return for a soldier seized by militants in June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Monday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by telephone on Saturday that militant groups had agreed to cease attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as of 0400 GMT on Sunday, an Abbas aide said.
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Palestinian militant groups offered to stop firing rockets into Israel in exchange for a cessation of all attacks on the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, an official said on Thursday.
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Two Italian aid workers were kidnapped in the chaotic Gaza Strip as three Palestinians were killed in Israeli incursions.
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A new study from the Israeli group Peace Now says nearly forty percent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank are built on privately-owned Palestinian land. Israel’s largest settlement — Ma’ale Adumim — is built on eighty-five percent private land.
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A team of United Nations investigators has concluded that Israel engaged in “a significant pattern of excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate force” against Lebanese civilians that amounted to “a flagrant violation” of international law during its war against Hezbollah last summer.
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The Israeli army cancelled a planned air raid on the home of a Gaza militant on Sunday after several hundred Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an Israeli military spokesman and witnesses said.
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In Israel, a government cabinet minister is calling for an increase in the “targeted killing” of Palestinian leaders.
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More than 700 Islamic militants from Somalia traveled to Lebanon in July to fight alongside Hezbollah in its war against Israel, a United Nations report says.
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The United States vetoed a Security Council resolution on Saturday that condemned Israel for its military actions in Gaza and called for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.
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Due to the Lebanon war, Israel was facing an eight-fold increase in the cost of marijuana.
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Israeli tank shells crashed into a residential neighborhood, killing at least 18 people, including eight children, in their sleep early Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses and officials said.
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Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip Sunday morning, bringing to 48 the number of Palestinians killed since the ‘Autumn Clouds’ offensive was launched last week.
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At least ten Palestinians have been killed today as Israel continues a new attack on the Gaza Strip.
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The Israeli cabinet approved by a large majority Monday the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman to become deputy prime minister and strategic threats minister. Lieberman is a far-right wing politician who has called for Arabs living in Israel to be transferred to the Palestinian territories.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that the Israeli military might expand operations in the Gaza Strip in an attempt to halt Palestinian rocket fire, but that there was no intention to reoccupy the territory.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav faced the strongest pressure yet to step down on Sunday, when Israel’s attorney general urged him to take leave while an indictment on rape and other serious charges is taking shape.

Though Attorney General Meni Mazuz’s recommendation cannot force Katsav from office, it adds an influential voice to the growing chorus of officials who have called for the president to resign.
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Israeli jets intensified Monday their overflights over Lebanon reaching areas over the capital Beirut, Lebanese police said, despite warnings from the UN. The overflights are a violation of ceasefire conditions and UN troops are now authorized to open fire.
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Israeli forces killed six Palestinians, three of whom were reportedly militants.
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