Israel vows ceasefire 'patience'
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Israel says it will show "patience and restraint" after Palestinian rocket-fire threatens a fragile ceasefire.
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Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz says Palestinian militants groups have agreed to a truce.
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Hamas promised on Saturday to maintain a  de facto truce and, in a major policy change, not to retaliate  immediately for any Israeli violence while it weighs  Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's ceasefire with Israel.
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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, Oct 6  - The Israeli army&#39;s vast operation in the northern Gaza Strip will carry on until rocket attacks by Palestinian militants on southern Israel and Gaza settlements completely stop, a senior government official told AFP Wednesday.
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A ceasefire between Israel and militants in Gaza took hold on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised restraint in response to early Palestinian truce violations.
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Israel vowed on Tuesday to respond against militants who launched a cross-border rocket attack into the Jewish state from southern Lebanon, but said it would act with restraint to avoid inflaming the situation.
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Israel and the Palestinians will issue separate but mutually dependent vows Tuesday to halt military operations against each other, Palestinian and Israeli officials say.
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The supreme leader of Hamas has promised that the militant group will end missile attacks and other violence against Israel, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday.
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The Israeli prime minister is clearly determined to push through his plan. He told a convention of the Likud party: &quot;This plan will be applied, and that&#39;s it.
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Israel lodged a protest with the United Nations over the latest Katyusha rocket fire into the Jewish state from southern Lebanon and vowed Tuesday that it would not let such attacks pass without a response.
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JERICHO, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she hoped Israelis and Palestinians would broaden their fragile ceasefire as she began a new push on Thursday to revive stalled peace talks in the Middle East.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan  despite a humiliating rebuff from his own party of his bid to  forge a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Palestinians and Israelis moved closer to halting more than four years of bloody violence on Sunday, with the new Palestinian leader saying he had made progress toward a truce deal with militants. Israel pledged for the first time to hold fire if calm prevails.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed Sunday to press ahead with a massive military incursion in the Gaza Strip that has killed almost 60 people in five days.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan  despite his own party's humiliating rebuff of his bid to forge  a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Israel will not launch attacks or raids against Palestinians if the situation remains calm and it is not provoked, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday.