Israel to Withdraw Troops During Palestinian Election
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Israel will withdraw its troops from Palestinian towns for 72 hours during next month's Palestinian presidential election, the defense minister said Monday, signaling that a deadly weekend attack on an Israel army post is not derailing fledgling peace efforts.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials said yesterday that they were prepared to remove soldiers and military checkpoints from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to make it easier for voters to take part in the Palestinian presidential election, slated for Jan. 9.
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Israel shut Palestinian voter  registration offices in Arab East Jerusalem Monday that had  been opened in advance of an as-yet unscheduled Palestinian  general election, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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Israel ordered its army to stop offensive operations in the Gaza Strip and scale them back sharply in the West Bank.
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Israel will have to carry out a wider withdrawal from the West Bank after the initial pullback planned for 2005, Israel&#39;s Vice Premier said in an interview published Thursday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian officials urged  Israel on Saturday to curb military operations as they began to  register candidates for an election to replace Yasser Arafat as  Palestinian Authority president.
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NEW YORK - At the request of the US administration, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has agreed to consider removing Israeli security forces from Palestinian population areas to facilitate Palestinian elections in the next two months, the New York
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JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered a troop pullout from a refugee camp in Gaza. The order could signal an end to a two-week offensive in northern Gaza that has left more than 100 Palestinians dead.
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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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Israeli leaders approved on Thursday  a troop pullback from West Bank cities and a plan to release  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of an  Israeli summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week.
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The Israeli army has begun its withdrawal from southern Lebanon, handing over some of their positions to a U.N force, the army said Thursday.
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Israel said before a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Israel pulled most of its forces out of the northern Gaza Strip Saturday after a four-day incursion it said was staged to halt Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave  the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of  northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed  the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four  years.
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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 has said it will consider any formal request to pull troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.