Blair named Mideast envoy, Israel kills 12 in Gaza
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World powers named Tony Blair as their Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, handing the outgoing British prime minister a daunting new challenge on a day Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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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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The Middle East negotiating Quartet has appointed former British prime minister Tony Blair as its representative, the United Nations announced on Wednesday.
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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed 12 Palestinians in less than a week, including a 7-year old child, 4 extra-judicially executed, and 4 died in sporadic tank shelling inside their homes, to vindicate the Arab League chief Amr Mousaâs statement
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JERUSALEM, May 27 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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Western powers struggled on Tuesday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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An Israeli security source tells the BBC that Israel was involved in the killing of a Hamas activist on Sunday.
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Tony Blair began his first visit to the Middle East as international envoy on Monday, meeting Israeli leaders who promised to try to revive the long-stalled peace process with the Palestinians.
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Allies backed former British prime minister Tony Blair in his new role as Middle East peace envoy for the main global powers but the Hamas movement poured scorn on the nomination.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet meet former prime minister Tony Blair here Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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Israel pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least five fighters, and seized a Palestinian cabinet minister.
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Tony Blair arrived Monday in Israel on the second leg of his maiden voyage to the Middle East as special envoy for the peace Quartet, an AFP photographer said.
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The prime minister, Tony Blair, right, with his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, at a Jerusalem press conference. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP.
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Israeli troops killed at least 12 Palestinians, including one policemen and two militants, in four separate incidents Wednesday in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials said.
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Israel killed nine Palestinians and injured 20 in military operations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and threatened a major ground sweep of the Hamas-run territory to stem cross-border rocket fire.
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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 has been stepping up its military raids in the Gaza Strip with its troops killing 12 Palestinians in the past two days. The action comes as Palestinian presidential contenders campaign for the January 9th elections.