Israeli official says cease-fire holding
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Israel's defense minister said Monday that barring isolated skirmishes with Hezbollah, the U.N.-imposed cease-fire is holding in southern Lebanon, and Israel is coordinating with the United Nations to relinquish captured territory.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel would not rush into a cease-fire in southern Lebanon until it achieves its goals there.
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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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A top Israeli official says the significance of withdrawing from Gaza is to stop a political settlement with Palestinians.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinians and Israelis moved closer to halting more than four years of bloody violence yesterday, with the new Palestinian leader saying he had made progress toward a truce deal with militants. Israel pledged for the first time to hold fire if calm prevails.
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A ceasefire between Israel and militants in Gaza took hold on Sunday and despite Palestinian rocket attacks in the first hours, Israel promised restraint.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Friday the Jewish state should not agree to a truce with Hamas unless the Islamist group first stops rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview with an Egyptian newspaper. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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A U.N.-declared cease-fire to stop the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas must ensure that the militant Shiite group cannot be rearmed by Syria and Iran, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.
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Israel signaled on Saturday it could  ease military operations against Palestinian militants if they  halted attacks, but senior Palestinian leaders said only a full  Israeli cease-fire could stop fighting.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Friday the Jewish state should not agree to a truce with Hamas unless the Islamist group first stops firing rockets from the Gaza Strip.
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After a shaky start, the cease-fire appeared to be holding today after most Palestinian factions stopped firing rockets in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal of troops.
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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinian prime minister said yesterday that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 -- The Israeli government agreed late Saturday to cease military operations in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a pledge by Palestinian armed groups to stop firing rockets into southern Israel, a tentative deal that leaders on both sides said could end months of violence in and...
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Israel will keep troops in the Gaza Strip indefinitely to prevent Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns, Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, said yesterday.