Gaza violence dents hopes of Mideast peace
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says that any peace talks with Palestinian leaders depend on whether they can rein in militants, who killed five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday.
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depends on whether they can rein in militants, who killed five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday. drew missile strikes in a swift reprisal and dimmed hopes for an end to decades of conflict in the post-Arafat era.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - After years trapped in the  noisiest, most devastated flashpoint of conflict with Israel,  Palestinians are sleeping nights again.
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Israelis and Palestinians far from Tuesday's summit in Egypt expressed doubts whether a cease-fire declared by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas could end four years of bloodshed.
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An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza on Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against militants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse internal resistance
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Palestinian militants shelled  Jewish settlements on Monday after witnesses accused Israeli  troops of killing a girl at a U.N.-run Gaza school, straining a  de facto truce that has raised hopes for peace.
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A shaky cease-fire took effect on Monday between Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah after days of heavy fighting pushed the Gaza Strip to the brink of civil war.
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A Mideast peace summit designed to open a new chapter for Israelis and Palestinians fed up with violence concluded Monday with no new agreements and a pledge to keep talking.
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Palestinian gunmen exchanged gunfire in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing one person and wounding seven in the latest flare-up of violence between the rival Hamas and Fatah groups which underscores the fragility of their power-sharing deal.
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Rising prospects for Palestinian-Israeli peace are marginalizing the Hamas movement, responsible for numerous suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis, according to a Palestinian poll.
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TONY EASTLEY: Since the death last month of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat there&#39;s been a relative lull in violence against Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
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Egypt said Tuesday it had brokered an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, hours after Hamas militants set off a bomb in Gaza that killed an Israeli soldier and triggered Israeli retaliation that left four Palestinian militants dead in the most serious violence since the death of Yasser Arafat.
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JERUSALEM -- Within days of the Israeli-Palestinian summit conference last week in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, the euphoric visions of peace generated by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas were dissipating amid Qassam rockets, clan killings, and warnings that only actions, not words, could improve matters.
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While Yasir Arafat's passing may be seen as an opportunity by politicians, suicide bombings have broken Israeli optimism.
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Violence flared in Gaza as Israeli troops pulled back from a two-day raid on a Palestinian refugee camp that killed 11 people. Palestinian.
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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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Hoping to stop rocket fire, Israel threatens to cut electricity supplies to a Palestinian enclave. But that could dim the lights on the U.S.-backed peace talks