Israel to limit strikes in West Bank, Gaza
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JERUSALEM -- Israel announced yesterday that it would curtail offensive operations against Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to halt attacks on the Jewish state, marking a significant step toward a full-scale cease-fire between the two sides.
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Palestinian security forces took up positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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Israel launched airstrikes against militants firing rockets from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and vowed to maintain the siege of the territory until its Hamas rulers halt attacks
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Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the territory, a government official said.
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Israel threatened to use force to topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders on Monday following a surge of cross-border rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has agreed to lift travel restrictions in parts of the West Bank in coming weeks, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday, in what would be the strongest signal yet to Palestinians that a cease-fire with Israel is beginning to pay off.
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Israeli troops have moved into central Gaza in an operation to stop Palestinian militants firing mortars at nearby Jewish settlements.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel is considering a plan to stop pursuing scores of Fatah militants and give Palestinians wider security control over West Bank enclaves to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas, officials and diplomats said yesterday.
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Israeli army officials said that they had stopped most search-and-arrest operations against Palestinian militants and were easing security restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to allow Palestinians greater freedom to vote Sunday for a new president.
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Israel's military will stop allowing Palestinian security forces in the West Bank to carry weapons in public within the next 24 hours, the army chief told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday.
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Israel sought to put an end to a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza, sending its air force Friday against a symbol of Hamas power in the heart of Gaza City and simultaneously choking off shipments of fuel and food across its border with the strip.
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JERUSALEM - Facing unrelenting criticism from Jewish settlers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that nothing would deter him from pushing forward with his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.    Also Monday, scattered fighting in the Gaza Strip killed at least five Palestinian militants, including two Palestinians who infiltrated Israel from Gaza early Monday and were shot in a lengthy gunbattle...
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Israel kills several Palestinians as it vows to expand an operation to stop rockets being fired from Gaza.
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Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the Palestinian territory, government officials said.
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An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian  militant in Gaza on Sunday, the 11th day of an offensive Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse internal resistance to  his plan for withdrawing from some occupied land.
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Palestinian militants will cease rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a telephone call on Saturday, an Abbas aide said.
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Israel orders the closure of Gaza's border with Egypt to prevent Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya's return.