Israelis begin barrier in south
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Israeli bulldozers start clearing the ground for the southern section of the West Bank barrier.
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Israel has begun thinning out its troops in southern Lebanon and plans hand over the first of its captured positions to the Lebanese army on Wednesday, the army said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian border guards wielding clubs and firing toward the ground pushed back hundreds of Palestinian travelers who surged toward a Gaza-Egypt border terminal yesterday during a rare opening of the coastal strip's only gateway to the world.
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JERUSALEM, OCTOBER 17 : Israel launched a new incursion in the Rafah refugee camp in the Southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, for what the army said, is an operation to search for tunnels being used to smuggle arms from Egypt and to hunt down Palestinian
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Israeli border police scuffle with Israeli peace activists in a village near the West Bank town of Ramallah. Photo: AP. Paramilitary border police detained two Palestinians at a checkpoint and
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Israel opened part of a major commercial crossing with Gaza on Thursday for the first time since the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the coastal strip two weeks ago, U.N. and Israeli officials said.
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GAZA CITY, Sept. 4 -- Israel's high court ordered the military Tuesday to reroute the separation barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin, scene of sometimes rowdy weekly demonstrations that Israeli and Palestinian activists say helped bring about their rare legal victory.
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At least eight Palestinians have been killed in heavy fighting with Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel says it has moved into the area to stop Palestinian mortar and rocket attacks.
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Israeli helicopters fired two missiles at a target south of Gaza City early Wednesday, residents and Palestinian security officials said, and Israeli tanks moved into the city.
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JERUSALEM For much of the day Tuesday, it appeared that the Jewish settlements of the Gaza Strip had already been evacuated. By the thousands, settlers piled onto buses, leaving behind closed shops and padlocked schools in the sand dunes of Gaza.
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Israel wants to establish a 1.2-mile-wide strip in south Lebanon that will be free of Hezbollah guerrillas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday, giving the dimensions of a new "security zone" for the first time.
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GAZA, JanGAZA, Jan. 26  - Palestinian  security forces began deploying in southern Gaza Wednesday to  halt militant attacks on Israelis under orders from new  moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses said.
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Israeli tanks and troops moved into southern Gaza early Wednesday in a new phase of a two-week offensive aimed at militants holding a captured soldier and firing rockets, Palestinians and the military said.
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Israel on Saturday denied entry to Egypt to a first batch of 85 Palestinian security personnel due to receive training in readiness for a planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip, Egyptian border police told the French AFP news agency.
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Israeli officials have redrawn the planned route of an unfinished stretch of Israel&#39;s separation barrier so that it will not take West Bank land, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Monday.
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Responding to a public outcry after a bloody Palestinian attack, Israeli bulldozers began flattening land for a security barrier in a part of the West Bank that has been ignored up to now.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials yesterday offered to transfer control over security in several West Bank towns, part of a series of Israeli and Palestinian initiatives marking the most serious attempt yet to halt more than four years of fighting.