US 'to unblock' Palestinian aid
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The US says it will lift sanctions against Palestinians once a new cabinet without Hamas is sworn in.
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The United States sought on Thursday to bolster support for an aid blockade against the Palestinian Authority and win backing for U.S. efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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The US secretary of state is to meet the new Palestinian leadership in the West Bank next week, an official says.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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US asks Israel to help the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, by removing checkpoints and roadblocks near major Palestinian centres.
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Israel&#39;s plan to withdraw from some occupied land aims to rule out a Palestinian state indefinitely, with full US approval, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s chief of staff
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The Bush administration on Wednesday announced it was giving $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help it through a financial crisis.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to press Israel to ease Gaza border restrictions, on her regional tour.
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The U.S. is trying to jump-start Middle East peace talks. But an accord between Palestinian factions got in the way. A key member of Congress discusses how the deal has affected U.S. funding for Fatah.
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Palestinians could receive as much as  $8 billion in aid over the next four years from the United  States, Europe and Arab nations if progress is made in the  Palestinians' push for peace with Israel, the New York Times  reported on Friday.
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Providing more humanitarian relief and freer movement across borders are ways the U.S. may be able to help improve the lives of Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The Palestinian prime minister urged the United States on Friday to stick to its original 2005 deadline for Palestinian statehood, arguing that President Bush&#39;s recent proposal
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Israel plans to impose a blanket economic embargo on Gaza, denying the Hamas administration access to funds including Palestinian tax revenues transferred to President Mahmoud Abbas, senior Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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President Bush on Monday pledged help and support to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as the United States prepared to lift economic and diplomatic sanctions against his government since it no longer includes the Islamic militant group Hamas.
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A top aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted as saying yesterday that Israel&#39;s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is intended to block Palestinian statehood indefinitely and that the policy had US backing.
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Israel&#39;s plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza will prevent a Palestinian state emerging and freeze peacemaking, and all with Washington&#39;s approval, a key adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday.