Making the Gaza Cease-Fire Stick
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Israel dismisses early rocket fire as hiccups but warns it will retaliate if  attacked by Palestinian militants
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JERUSALEM -- Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire yesterday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state, but early violations by Palestinian militants tempered hopes the accord would help revive long-stalled peace talks.
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Description: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon presents a detailed timetable for Israel&#39;s withdrawal from most of the Gaza Strip.
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The Palestinian presidentâs declaration was both a challenge to the Hamas movement and a risky effort to break a political stalemate that could backfire.
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A cease-fire aimed at halting months of deadly internal Palestinian violence held on its first day, but underlying tensions cast doubt on the future of the stand-down.
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Analysis: Past U.N. plans to pacify the country haven't worked. Why it's  unlikely the latest ceasefire resolution can do it either
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet today with militant leaders to push them to honor a days-old cease-fire marred by mortar and rocket attacks on Israeli targets, according to an aide.
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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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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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GAZA CITY -- Gaza's warring factions began to hold their fire yesterday as a truce took effect across the volatile territory and brought hopes for an end to the infighting that has left 36 people dead in five days.
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A truce between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday, heralding a possible end to a wave of rocket attacks on the Jewish state and a halt to a five-month-old Israeli military offensive.
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The events of the past few days in the Gaza Strip underscore a trend that began some time ago. The fifth year of the conflict, which begins this week, is, at least in the meantime, the year of disengagement.
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Ideally, Israel would be withdrawing from the Gaza Strip as part of a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. Ideally, there would be no suspicion that the withdrawal is part
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As a tenuous cease-fire took hold in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh appealed to all Palestinians to prevent a resurgence in the internal violence that killed 36 people in recent days.
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Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state &#151; a major step toward possibly reviving long-stalled peace talks.
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2004-10-06 | Gaza, an ongoing tragedy with seemingly no end in sight to killings, destruction and humiliation. It seems almost redundant, or at least perfunctory, to report that the United States has once
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Since the peace process began at the 1991 Madrid Conference, Gaza has not been a topic for negotiation. That&#39;s because everyone realized that in any peace agreement with the Palestinians there would cease to be an Israeli presence in the Strip.