Israel to lift Lebanon blockade
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Israel will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon on Thursday at 1500 GMT, the government announces.
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Developments Sunday in Israel's offensive against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon:
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan said on Tuesday he was hoping for "positive" news in the   next 48 hours on whether Israel would lift an air and sea   blockade on Lebanon.
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Israel intends to complete a troop   withdrawal from Lebanon by the weekend, Defense Minister Amir   Peretz said on Wednesday, as Germany and Malaysia took steps to   beef up an international peacekeeping force.
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU  TYRE, Lebanon - The fishermen in this southern Lebanese port city are back at work now that the Israeli sea embargo has been lifted.
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   Hizbollah television and began enforcing a naval blockade of   Lebanon on Thursday, intensifying reprisals after Hizbollah   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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Israel and the Palestinians lifted a  nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts  Wednesday and agreed to prepare for a first summit between  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas.
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U.N. peacekeepers have advised the Lebanese government that Israel will complete a troop pullout from south Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said on Saturday.
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Israel is prepared to discuss freeing   Lebanese prisoners for two soldiers held hostage by Hizbollah   if the two are handed over to the Lebanese government, a senior   Israeli political source said on Thursday.
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A Lebanese civilian airliner flying   directly from Paris circled Beirut before landing on Thursday,   marking the lifting of an Israeli air blockade against Lebanon,   airport sources said.
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The Lebanese government decided Monday to protest to the U.N. Security Council over Israel's blockade of the country and call on it to force Israel to lift the siege.
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Lebanese troops moved on Tuesday into a town wrecked by Israel's war with Hezbollah, as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said he hoped for word on the lifting of an Israeli blockade on Lebanon within ...
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JERUSALEM -- Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said yesterday that Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon was a ``humiliation," and demanded that it be lifted. But Israel said that it first needed assurances that forces deployed on the border could stop weapons shipments to Hezbollah.
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Israel rejected a call by U.N.   Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and   sea blockade of Lebanon, saying it would only end the   7-week-old siege once all aspects of a ceasefire were in place.
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Israel says it has withdrawn all troops from Lebanon, fulfilling a key condition of the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
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Israel came under new pressure Friday to move its West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 barrier after the attorney general warned of international isolation and the Supreme Court ordered the government to explain its position in light of
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has agreed to lift travel restrictions in parts of the West Bank in coming weeks, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday, in what would be the strongest signal yet to Palestinians that a cease-fire with Israel is beginning to pay off.