Israel Cuts Back Military Actions to Answer Abbas
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Israel ordered its army to stop offensive operations in the Gaza Strip and scale them back sharply in the West Bank.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  has lifted a ban on peace talks with new Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas imposed after six Israelis were killed in a Gaza  border ambush, political sources said on Wednesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian officials urged  Israel on Saturday to curb military operations as they began to  register candidates for an election to replace Yasser Arafat as  Palestinian Authority president.
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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Israel began scaling back its 17 day offensive in the Gaza Strip today after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heeded the armyâs warning that an extended stay is too risky and the US called for a quick withdrawal.
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Israel is considering a plan under which it would stop hunting many Fatah militants and give Palestinians more control over West Bank enclaves to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas, officials and diplomats said Saturday.
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Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, following through on a promise to step up pressure on the area's Hamas rulers in response to months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Palestinian officials say they could be forced to cut health services as Israel halts fuel shipments
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the pullback at the urging of Israeli military commanders, who argued the two-week offensive had played itself out, and after calls from the United States to wrap up the operation...
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Israel's military has begun scaling back arrest raids aimed at Palestinian militants in the West Bank, security officials said Monday, in another move designed to help moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Israel confirms that it has started cutting fuel supplies to Gaza, an attempt to stop the firing of militants' rockets.
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The Palestinian prime minister said Friday 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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Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip will be removed from their homes next summer, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Thursday, and in the meantime he said Israel will broaden its military offensive there.
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JERUSALEM - Israel is scaling back its army offensive in northern Gaza, officials said Friday, as an air raid killed a Palestinian man near the Jebaliya refugee camp.
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Israel has decided to scale back its bloody two-week military operation in northern Gaza, its largest operation there in four years of fighting.
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The Israeli army pulled most of its forces  out of northern Gaza on Friday, scaling back one of its biggest  offensives in four years of conflict, an incursion that began  16 days ago and has killed more than 100 Palestinians.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the army to do whatever was needed to end Palestinian rocket, mortar and bomb attacks, and the government dismissed a call Sunday by the PLO leadership for a halt to militant violence, hours before Palestinians claimed Israeli tank fire had killed a 28-year-old man and his mother in the Gaza Strip.