Israel blocks Palestinian PM from returning to Gaza
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Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from returning to Gaza on Thursday after a visit abroad to prevent him bringing in money donated by Iran.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 14 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was stranded for much of Thursday in the Egyptian Sinai after Israel barred him from entering the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in cash, a standoff that prompted armed demonstrations by his Hamas movement and gunfire as his convoy crossed the border hours later without the money....
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will not let his country's blockade of Gaza turn into a humanitarian crisis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert balked on Thursday at committing to a total freeze in settlement activity, a key demand of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for advancing U.S.-backed peace talks.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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Israel resumed building one of the  most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in  occupied land, a step Palestinians said on Monday clouded new  President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out dialogue with Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip and said the army would continue attacks on militants firing cross-border rockets into Israel.
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defense minister said on Thursday.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lifted a ban on contacts with the Palestinians after new leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered Gaza security forces to halt attacks on Israelis, and officials from both sides met within hours.
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Israel will not block Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from assuming control of the Gaza Strip's breached border crossing with Egypt as part of an agreement with Cairo, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel will not stand in the way of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas taking control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt as part of a deal to sideline Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave, officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel resumed building one of the  most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in  occupied land, in a move Palestinians said Monday clouded new  President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that Israel would not free the number of Palestinian militants demanded by the captors of an Israeli soldier abducted a year ago.
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Palestinian militants say there will be no ceasefire until Israel stops attacks in Gaza, as a minister is detained.
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Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from carrying $35 million into Gaza on Thursday, allowing the Hamas leader to return from fund-raising in Muslim countries only after he left the money behind.
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Israel has blocked a U.N. fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip that was to be led by Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, officials said Monday.
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Israel has decided to resume diplomatic contacts with the Palestinians after cutting them off for almost two weeks over a bombing in the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday.