Gaza Violence Dents Hopes of Middle East Peace
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that any peace talks with Palestinian leaders depended on whether they could rein in militants, who killed five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday.
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JERUSALEM -- The Fatah movement's yellow flags flew alongside Hamas's green ones yesterday in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians expressed cautious hope that a new power-sharing agreement between the rival factions could bring an end, or at least a pause, to weeks of internal violence.
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The violent crisis in Gaza has led the White House to reconsider tentative plans for President Bush to give a major address this month on his hopes for Mideast peace.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 7 -- In the six weeks since Israeli and Palestinian leaders left Annapolis, Md., pledging to end "bloodshed, suffering and decades of conflict between our peoples," violence has escalated over long-standing territorial disputes and security concerns, leaving little optimism here o...
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A ceasefire between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday after five months of bloodshed in the coastal strip, raising the possibility of moribund Middle East peacemaking being revived.
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JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH  - Israelis and Palestinians  far from Tuesday's summit in Egypt expressed doubts whether a  cease-fire declared by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and  President Mahmoud Abbas could end four years of bloodshed.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Mahmoud Abbas extended his hand in peace to Israel as he was sworn in as the new Palestinian leader Saturday, but the Israeli army killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 46 election officials resigned over alleged ballot irregularities, crushing optimism for an early resumption of the peace process.
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GAZA CITY - Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs optimism for peace in 2005 was immediately dealt a blow Friday with the killing of two Palestinians Friday by Israeli troops during an incursion in the south of the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli-Palestinian talks  on security coordination scheduled after a ceasefire summit  meeting were postponed on Thursday because of a fresh outbreak  of violence, Palestinian officials said.
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Several weeks of relative calm in the Gaza Strip ended with an explosion and gunfire on Tuesday. One Israeli soldier died and four others were wounded in a bomb blast
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - Palestinian leaders warned  their Israeli counterparts on Friday that a new spirit of  cooperation between the Middle East foes would endure only if  Israel's Gaza pullout was linked to a final peace settlement.
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Three Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in shootings late Friday and early Saturday, threatening the calm that has accompanied a power-sharing deal between Islamic Hamas militants and the rival Fatah Party.
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An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian  militant were killed in Gaza on Tuesday in a resurgence of  violence that could threaten efforts to instil calm for a  Palestinian election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Palestinian militants shelled  Jewish settlements on Monday after witnesses accused Israeli  troops of killing a girl at a U.N.-run Gaza school, straining a  de facto truce that has raised hopes for peace.
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By threatening to ignite a Palestinian civil war, the killing of three children in the Gaza Strip on Monday has jeopardized Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's efforts to restart long-stalled peace talks.
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Egypt's official news agency said Tuesday significant progress had been made in international efforts to end Israeli-Palestinian violence, but both sides to the conflict termed talk of a deal premature.