Israel completes withdrawal from Lebanon
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ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon early on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under a ceasefire deal that ended a war with Hizbollah guerrillas.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a historic victory yesterday when parliament voted to approve his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank - the first time that legislators have authorized the removal of Jewish settlements from
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Israel intends to complete a troop   withdrawal from Lebanon by the weekend, Defense Minister Amir   Peretz said on Wednesday, as Germany and Malaysia took steps to   beef up an international peacekeeping force.
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Israel has begun thinning out its troops in southern Lebanon and plans hand over the first of its captured positions to the Lebanese army on Wednesday, the army said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday the fighting in Lebanon would end when the two soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas are freed, rocket attacks on Israel have stopped, and the Lebanese army is deployed along the border.
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The Israeli army is preparing to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon by Sunday morning, defense officials said.
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The Israeli army pulled out of Palestinian  areas in northern Gaza on Friday, ending a massive 16-day  offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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Israel withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.
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Israel said Friday that it had begun to redeploy troops in Gaza and remove some of them altogether as it scales back its 17-day military operation in the northern Gaza
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Israel has made "significant progress" in the gradual withdrawal of its forces from south Lebanon in the month since the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to end the conflict there, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday in a report.
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Israel on Thursday lifted an air   blockade of Lebanon imposed when it went to war with Hizbollah   guerrillas eight weeks ago and a Lebanese airliner landed at   Beirut's patched-up airport to mark the moment.
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The German parliament has voted to send soldiers to Lebanon, removing the final hurdle for a German contribution to the international peace keeping force.
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JERUSALEM -- Nearly two months after the rest of its army left southern Lebanon, Israel agreed yesterday to pull its few dozen remaining soldiers from the Lebanese part of a village divided by the border, yielding control to UN peacekeepers.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday gave the go ahead to Israeli forces to withdraw from a teeming refugee camp and other heavily populated areas in northern Gaza, media reports said.
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Israel is making good progress removing its troops from southern Lebanon, UN chief Kofi Annan says.
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The Israeli army began handing over positions to the U.N. early Thursday, stepping up its withdrawal from southern Lebanon after the Lebanese government agreed to deploy troops near Israel's border for the first time in 40 years.
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CHTAURA, Lebanon  - Several Syrian military units  withdrew from Lebanon early on Thursday, part of a larger  Syrian troop redeployment that has been praised by the United  States.