Palestinians offer Israel limited truce
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Palestinian militant groups offered to stop firing rockets into Israel in exchange for a cessation of all attacks on the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, an official said on Thursday.
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Palestinian factions agreed to stop violence and Israel said it would halt its military operations, but it was not clear if the deal would take effect and hold.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders are holding talks in Egypt, with both sides expected to declare a truce.
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Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said Monday.
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A truce between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday, heralding a possible end to a wave of rocket attacks on the Jewish state and a halt to a five-month-old Israeli military offensive.
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NEW LEADER: At his inaguration, Mahmoud Abbas urged an immediate cease-fire and said he was extending his hand in peace to Israel.
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The cease-fire appeared to be holding after Palestinian factions stopped firing rockets in exchange for an Israeli troop withdrawal.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinians and Israelis moved closer to halting more than four years of bloody violence yesterday, 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 -- Israel has stopped targeting Palestinian militants for death, according to Israeli security officials, fulfilling a key Palestinian demand for a truce to end four years of violence.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday to broaden their fragile Gaza ceasefire as Arab nations urged her to press Israel to ease restrictions in the occupied West Bank.
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Palestinian militants signaled on Sunday  they would help maintain calm in Gaza for at least a month but  denied Israeli reports they had agreed to a cease-fire at the  behest of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The militant group Hamas will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a long-term truce with Israel, a leader said yesterday, apparently softening Hamas's hard-line stance and boosting hopes for renewed peace efforts after Yasser Arafat's death.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas  has secured an agreement with leading Palestinian militant  groups for a cease-fire of about a month in the Middle East  conflict, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Sunday.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday to broaden their fragile ceasefire as Arab nations urged her to press Israel to ease restrictions in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority are trying to work out a deal to end the army's Gaza offensive in return for stopping militants firing rockets into the Jewish state, Israeli security sources said Tuesday.
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Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz says Palestinian militants groups have agreed to a truce.
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GAZA CITY -- Militant groups have agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Israel, a trial period before a formal truce agreement, to give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas time to appeal to Israel to stop targeting militants, Palestinian officials said yesterday.