Israel plans to end Lebanese blockade
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Israel said it would lift its stifling air and sea blockade of Lebanon on Thursday, marking a crucial breakthrough in international efforts to rebuild from the war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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The Israeli army expects to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon by Sunday evening, meeting a key condition of the cease-fire that ended more than a month of fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Israel began on Thursday to lift a   blockade of Lebanon imposed when it went to war with Hizbollah   guerrillas eight weeks ago and a Lebanese airliner landed at   Beirut's patched-up airport to mark the moment.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a visiting U.N. envoy Tuesday that Israel will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon once an international peacekeeping force is deployed along Lebanon's borders.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon   said Israel ended its naval blockade on Lebanon on Friday after   an international naval force became operational off the   Lebanese coast.
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Israel says it has withdrawn all troops from Lebanon, fulfilling a key condition of the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
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Israel would agree to a cease-fire in its six-day-old offensive against Hezbollah if the Lebanese guerrillas withdraw from the border area with Israel and release two captured Israeli soldiers, a senior official said Monday.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early today, the army said, fulfilling a key condition of the UN cease-fire that ended a monthlong war with Hezbollah guerrillas. Military officials said the last soldier exited Lebanon just after 2:30 a.m.
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Israel lifted its eight-week sea   blockade of Lebanon on Friday after an interim maritime task   force led by an Italian admiral deployed off the Lebanese   coast, the commander of U.N. peacekeepers said.
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Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh   said on Wednesday his country would break Israel's blockade by   force if it is not lifted in a 48-hour timeframe indicated by   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon early on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under a ceasefire deal that ended a war with Hizbollah guerrillas.
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Israel will allow the opening of safe passages in Lebanon for the transport of humanitarian aid to all areas of the country, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday.
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BEIRUT -- Israel lifted its sea blockade of Lebanon yesterday, ending the country's two months of isolation as the task of preventing the entry of Hezbollah weapons falls to international warships patrolling offshore.
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Israel said on Wednesday it would lift   an eight-week-old air and sea blockade of Lebanon at 11 a.m. ET   on Thursday, handing over control to international forces.
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Israel prepared to lift its sea blockade   of Lebanon on Friday after an Italian admiral assumed control   of an interim maritime task force to deploy off the Lebanese   coast.
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Lebanon vowed on Wednesday to bust   Israel's eight-week-old blockade of its ports and airport   unless it is lifted within two days as envisaged by U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Israel will lift its naval blockade of Lebanon within 48 hours, having received assurances international forces will have arrived by then to monitor the seas, government spokesman Asaf Shariv said Friday.