Israel ends sea blockade of Lebanon
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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 closed all border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Friday, cutting off at least one aid shipment, and bombed the empty Interior Ministry building of the Palestinian Authority.
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With a low-flying passenger jet circling the capital, Lebanon put on a boisterous show Thursday to celebrate the end of Israel's air blockade. But Israel said its closure of Lebanon's ports will remain in force until international forces arrive to watch the seas.
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Israel will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon on Thursday at 1500 GMT, the Israeli government announces.
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Israel lifted its eight-week sea   blockade of Lebanon on Friday, handing control of the Lebanese   coastline to an international naval task force.
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Israel agreed to allow diesel fuel and medicine into Gaza on a one-time basis, easing the blockade imposed because of a surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
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The Israeli army left all but one divided border town in Lebanon Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the truce.
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Israel on Wednesday rejected demands from visiting U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that it immediately lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon and withdraw its forces once 5,000 international troops are deployed.
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Israel rejected a call by U.N.   Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and   sea blockade of Lebanon, saying it would end the seven-week-old   siege only when all aspects of a ceasefire were in place.
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Israel agreed Sunday to halt air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.
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Syria will withdraw fully from Lebanon only after Israel ends its occupation of all Arab lands, Lebanese Defense Minister Mahmoud Hammoud declared yesterday.
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Troops sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip today, imposing a virtual blanket ban on Palestinians entering Israel until the end of the Jewish holiday season next month, due to fears of terror attacks.
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Israel on Thursday imposed a sea and air blockade on Lebanon to cut off supply routes to Lebanese militants, the Israeli military said.
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Lebanon says a military operation against Islamist fighters at a Palestinian refugee camp has ended.
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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 United Nations declared an  end on Thursday to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon caused by  the Israeli-Hizbollah war and said it planned to shift its  resources to rebuilding the war-shattered area.
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Lebanon emerges on Thursday from a   costly eight-week Israeli blockade of its airport and   territorial waters, which German advisers and U.N. forces will   now help the Lebanese authorities to monitor.