Israeli military frees an ex-Hamas official
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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Hamas's top leader in the West Bank was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after completing a two-year sentence, potentially bolstering the Palestinian militant group's standing in the West Bank.
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KAFR QASSEM CHECKPOINT, West Bank  - Israeli   authorities on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime   Minister Naser al-Shaer, who was among Hamas officials detained   after Gazan gunmen abducted an Israeli soldier.
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Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Saudi-American citizen who was captured on the Afghanistan battlefield and held without charges for nearly three years, has been freed and returned Monday to Saudi Arabia.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - An Israeli military court   on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser   al-Shaer, a top Hamas official, after more than a month in   detention, his lawyer said.
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Egypt yesterday freed an Israeli Arab businessman, convicted of spying, in exchange for Israel&#39;s release of six Egyptian students.
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A group of gunmen have released a senior Palestinian security official after earlier kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip. General Mohammad al-Batrawi was driving through Gaza City when he was ambushed.
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Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister Saturday, the highest-ranking Hamas official rounded up in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling party.
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Israeli forces concluded a four-day operation in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, capturing a senior Hamas commander who Israeli military officials said was the leader of a cell that was preparing a suicide bombing in Israel during the religious holiday.
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Egypt today released an Israeli man convicted of spying, as part of a prisoner swap that signalled a warming of relations between the two countries, Israeli officials said.
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Alan Johnston, who had been held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah arrested a Hamas lawmaker and a top interior ministry official in the occupied West Bank on Monday, security officials said.
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An Israeli businessman who spent eight years in an Egyptian jail after being accused of espionage was released Sunday as part of an agreement between the two countries.
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A top Hamas military commander, linked by Israel to attacks that killed 78 people, including five Americans, surrendered Tuesday after Israeli troops surrounded his hideout and threatened to demolish it with him inside.
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Israel frees a large group of Palestinian prisoners in a move intended to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas.