Gaza Settlement Breaks Ranks, Accepts Israel Move
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A Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip  broke ranks with other ultra-nationalists and accepted  government terms to be relocated to Israel rather than staying  put in defiance, officials said Sunday.
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Palestinian witnesses said Israeli tanks moved into an abandoned Israeli settlement in northern Gaza early Sunday, a day after pulling back.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Knesset last night approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to evacuate Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and northern areas of the West Bank, but only after tough political infighting that indicated Sharon's political survival is at risk if he continues his current approach to the pullback.
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JERUSALEM, Oct 24  - The Israeli cabinet approved Sunday a compensation package for settlers who are set to be uprooted from their homes on the eve of a crunch debate on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip.
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The Bush administration has signaled approval of growth in some Israeli settlements in the West Bank in a policy change aimed at helping Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the New York Times said on Saturday.
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Residents of Peat Sadeh, a Jewish settlement at the Gaza Strip, have agreed to evacuate their houses within the framework of the plan for withdrawal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that foresees the evacuation of 21 Jewish settlements on the Gaza
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Israel relaxed travel restrictions Wednesday, allowing a few seriously ill Palestinians and all foreign nationals to leave Gaza.
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JERUSALEM Aug. 30, 2004 - Israel has proposed leaving a Gaza settlement intact to be used as a hospital after an Israeli pullout, and wants to sell an industrial zone on the edge of the coastal strip to international bodies, Israeli officials said.
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The militant group Hamas will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a long-term truce with Israel, a leader said Friday, apparently softening Hamas' hardline stance and boosting hopes for renewed peace efforts after Yasser Arafat's death.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers approved cash advances Tuesday of up to $115,000 to Jewish settlers willing to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank - the first concrete step toward carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's contentious pullout plan.    In a sign of growing tensions, Israeli police said Sharon and an official planning the withdrawal have been the targets of death threats by Jewish extremists...
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A small Jewish settlement tucked in the southwest corner of the Gaza Strip has become the first in which all the residents have agreed to leave under the Israeli government&#39;s
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JERUSALEM -- Residents of some Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip have proposed that their entire communities be moved to locations inside Israel under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza next year, a lawmaker said yesterday.
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Israel&#39;s parliament made a historic decision in backing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements.
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ISRAELâS security cabinet yesterday took the first step towards implementing prime minister Ariel Sharonâs Gaza withdrawal plan, agreeing to a massive compensation pay-out to Jewish settlers who would have to leave their homes.
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The first group of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip have agreed to leave under Ariel Sharon&#39;s withdrawal plan. The Israeli prime minister intends to pull out about 8,000 residents
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Israel's parliament on Wednesday approved a nearly $1 billion financial package to pay for withdrawing Israeli troops and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, delivering a major victory to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to vacate settlements for the first time in 23 years.
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Israel's security cabinet approves a compensation package for Jewish settlers  willing to leave Gaza.