Palestinian-Israeli deaths drop in 2007: report
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The number of people killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dropped sharply in 2007, but human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank increased, an Israeli human rights watchdog said on Monday.
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Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed Sunday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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American and Iraqi officials said that they were seeing a decline in the monthly civilian casualty count in June.
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Seven Palestinians were killed in scattered violence on Monday that included an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip and a raid by soldiers into a West Bank refugee camp.
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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide appears to have fallen modestly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said yesterday.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 -- Israel's "frequent failure" to distinguish between military and civilian targets during the war in Lebanon last summer was the primary reason so many Lebanese civilians were killed in the bombing campaign, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.
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Combat fatalities could be as low as 23 for October, a level not seen since 2006. Iraqi losses also fall.
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2004 was the year of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death and of Ariel Sharon&#39;s decision to withdraw unilaterally from illegal Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
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A top UN official said it was a &quot;bad month&quot; for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: more violence, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister apparently backing away from an international peace plan, and the Palestinians still far from implementing badly needed reforms
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The number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in the Middle East conflict dropped last year but human rights abuses continued, a leading Israeli human rights group said yesterday
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Description: Despite recent violence, there have been increasingly positive signs in the Middle East over the last few weeks. The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the withdrawal of Israeli settlers may be thawing the hardened conflict.
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Israeli television said on Wednesday  that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's health had  deteriorated.
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It was the third annual decline, though it was smaller than those seen in the previous two years. &quot;Nearly 7.4-million people reported just over $30.
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The number of Iraqi civilian deaths at American checkpoints and in encounters with U.S. convoys has fallen sharply, from as many as eight a week a year ago to one a week last month, the U.S. military reported Thursday.
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Administrative problems, not politics, led to a report that falsely showed a decline in worldwide terror attacks last year, the State Department inspector general's office said Tuesday.
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In its year-end report, the leading Israeli human rights organization B'tselem noted a roughly 50 percent reduction in fatalities.
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Violent civilian deaths in Iraq in December were down 75 percent from a year ago, new figures released on Monday showed as Iraqis partied in the streets of some parts of the capital Baghdad to bring in the New Year.