Blair named Mideast envoy, Israel kills 12 in Gaza
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Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians, mostly gunmen but also a 12-year-old boy and other civilians, on Wednesday in the deadliest raid in the Gaza Strip since Hamas seized the territory, medical workers said.
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Israel killed seven Palestinians in a series of air strikes in Gaza on Saturday, including three senior Islamic Jihad militants and a rocket manufacturer for a wing of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group.
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Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians,  including five militants, in Gaza on Saturday as the army  pressed on with a massive offensive aimed at stopping militants  firing rockets into Israel.
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Tony Blair continues his first Mid-East visit as the Quartet's special envoy by meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes his first appearance as Mideast envoy Thursday, with international diplomats gathering to discuss ways to breath life into long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Israel killed 13 Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, its most deadly air strikes in months against fighters behind rocket attacks from the Hamas-run territory.
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Middle East mediators held talks on  Tuesday that could clear the way for the appointment of Tony  Blair as their envoy to try to revive peace prospects after  Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched the first Mideast peace initiative since the death of Yasser Arafat, arriving for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders about a London conference.
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Tony Blair was appointed by the so-called quartet of international mediators as 13 Palestinians were killed during Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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The White House is pushing for Prime Minister Tony Blair to be made a special envoy to work on forming a Palestinian state in the unstable Middle East after he steps down, reports said Thursday.
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Middle East mediators held talks that could clear the way for the appointment of Tony Blair on Tuesday as their envoy to try to revive peace prospects after Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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GAZA CITY -- Israel killed four Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip yesterday, two in a ground assault and two in an air strike against militants launching rockets at the Jewish state, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. The violence was the worst in coastal Gaza in 10 days, and occurred a day before Britain's former prime minister, Tony Blair, makes ...
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JERUSALEM Aug. 18, 2004  An unusual Israeli attack near the home of a Hamas activist in Gaza City killed five people Wednesday, including three Palestinian militants, witnesses and officials said. The strike came just before Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...
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Tony Blair landed in Israel on Monday for his first visit as an international envoy, hoping to help end 60 years of peacemaking failure since Britain handed Palestine to Jews and Arabs who are still fighting over it.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Israel on a renewed drive for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Twelve Palestinians and three Israelis  were killed Thursday as tanks thrust deep into the Gaza Strip's  largest refugee camp for the first time after a rocket attack  killed two Israeli children in a border town.
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Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians, mostly gunmen but also a 12-year-old boy and other civilians, on Wednesday in the deadliest raid in Gaza since Hamas seized the territory, medical workers said.