Observers proposed for Israel-Gaza area
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The U.S. is proposing deploying international observers at the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza to prevent repeated security closures of Gaza's economic lifeline, a Palestinian negotiator said Monday.
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The Quartet of Mideast peacemakers meets Tuesday to assess the Israeli-Palestinian situation for the first time since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, and there were indications the envoys also would discuss making Tony Blair the group's chief envoy.
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JERUSALEM - Israel's defense minister decided Thursday to launch a large-scale, open-ended military operation in the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli border towns, an Israeli radio station reported.    Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz made the decision after consultations with army commanders and the Shin Bet security service, Israel Army Radio reported...
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US officials are given assurances over comments by an aide to the Israeli PM on the Gaza withdrawal.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas on Wednesday demanded a central role in controlling the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt in an open challenge to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of crisis talks in Cairo.
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All members of the Palestinian security services have been placed on a state of alert to prepare for a possible outbreak of unrest in the event of President Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, Palestinian security sources say.
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KHARTOUM/NAIROBI, Aug 18,2004 (dpa) -- The current number of ceasefire observers in Sudan&#39;s war-ravaged Darfur region is insufficient, the UN envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Israel will allow international observers to monitor upcoming elections to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority, Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday in another indication of easing of tensions since Arafat's death.
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Under the disengagement plan, Israel seeks to move the Rafah crossing to the south, to the Israel-Egypt-Gaza Strip border point, according to a paper submitted to the World Bank by the National Security Council in response to the bank&#39;s report on the
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel&#39;s unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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Palestinian officials presented a detailed  plan to Israel for the deployment of Gaza security forces to  halt attacks on Israelis, and the militant Hamas group set its  terms on Thursday for a cease-fire.
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Palestinians have a choice -- they can hold onto the past or look to the future. And to make progress, the US and Israel will have to help.
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The European Union on Monday  raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's  breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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The chief of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees called on the international community Thursday to provide Gaza with a peacekeeping force or mission of observers, saying Gaza's 1.4 million people deserve protection.
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Israel is willing to consider the possibility of letting a third party take over security at Gaza Strip naval and aerial ports after the disengagement plan is carried out, Nigel Roberts, the World Bank&#39;s country director for the West Bank and Gaza Strip
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International observers toured army roadblocks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday, and Palestinian officials complained Israel wasn't fully complying with promises to ease travel restrictions one day ahead of presidential elections to replace the late Yasser Arafat.
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The United States is sending an observer delegation to a Palestinian presidential election set for January 9, the State Department said.