The increasingly violent power struggle in the Occupied Territories edged closer to civil war yesterday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would call fresh presidential and legislative elections and insisted he had the right to fire the Hamas-led government.
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On Thursday, a convoy carrying Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was attacked after crossing into the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian gunmen killed three young sons of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday, pumping dozens of bullets into their car as it passed through a street crowded with schoolchildren in an apparent botched assassination attempt that could ignite widespread factional fighting.
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President Bush and Tony Blair rejected changing their approach on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The US and Britain have led an international aid freeze on the Palestinian government. Meanwhile, the United Nations launched a record $450 million appeal for emergency aid for Palestinians.
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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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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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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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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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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 forces killed six Palestinians, three of whom were reportedly militants.
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Israel threatened to take over the Gaza-Egyptian border, immediately and without hesitation. “Hesitation is dangerous,” they said.
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The Israeli human rights organization Gisha has filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn a new policy that bars Palestinians from enrolling at universities in Israel.
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The Israeli military is facing accusations its used an experimental weapon during recent attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.
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