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• MPs urge British Govt to open talks with Hamas

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:01 pm

  Tags: World Politics, Palestinian Territories, United Kingdom

  British MPs have called on the UK Government to open talks with the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

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• Rudy Giuliani on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Palestinian Territories, 2008 Elections, Rudy Giuliani, Israel, Hamas

  election of Hamas in the Palestinian-controlled territories is a case in point. The problem there is not the lack of statehood but corrupt and unaccountable governance. The Palestinian people need decent governance first, as a prerequisite for statehood. Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between the Israelis and the

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• Court orders West bank barrier re-route

  Published: September 4, 2007, 4:46 pm

  Tags: World Politics, Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the Israeli Defence Forces to re-route a section of the country's controversial separation barrier, finding it was highly prejudicial to residents of a Palestinian village.

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• Israeli forces kill 10 gunmen in Gaza

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Terrorism, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israeli soldiers and helicopter gunships operating inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip killed at least 10 Palestinian gunmen, the highest militant death toll in two months, medical workers and militants said.

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• Israelis 'don Hamas uniforms' for Gaza raid

  Published: September 8, 2007, 5:49 pm

  Tags: Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israeli special forces disguised as Hamas gunmen abducted a field commander from the ruling Palestinian Islamist group in the southern Gaza Strip, Hamas said.

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• At least 25 hurt in rocket attack on Israel

  Published: September 10, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday wounded at least 25 soldiers in a military base in Israel, an army spokesman said. "One rocket hit a base," the spokesman said. "Between 25 and 30 soldiers were hurt."

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• Dozens of Israeli soldiers wounded in rocket attack

  Published: September 11, 2007, 1:13 am

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  At least 30 Israeli soldiers have been wounded by a rocket fired into a military base by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, a military spokesman and medics say.

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• Israeli army makes arrests in Gaza

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Local residents say two small Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza Strip and the army arrested several Palestinians in the territory.

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• Olmert delays Palestinian prisoner release

  Published: September 15, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: World Politics, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert delayed a plan to release from prison scores of members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement, Israeli officials said.

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• Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Hebron

  Published: September 16, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israeli troops killed an armed Palestinian after shooting broke out between two feuding Palestinian families near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, local residents and medics said.

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• Israel proclaims Gaza Strip enemy entity

  Published: September 19, 2007, 7:15 am

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israel has declared the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip an enemy entity, opening the way for cuts in fuel and other vital supplies to the territory.

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• Israel to remove 24 barriers across West Bank

  Published: September 19, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israel is to remove 24 barriers across the West Bank in a bid to ease the hardships of Palestinians living under occupation and boost President Mahmoud Abbas, the Defence Ministry says.

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• Rice to meet Israeli, Palestinian presidents

  Published: September 20, 2007, 7:18 am

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories, United States

  The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, will hold separate meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents after Israel declared the Gaza Strip to be "a hostile entity".

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• Israel, Palestine clash in Gaza Strip incursion

  Published: September 20, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Israeli troops have launched an incursion into the central Gaza Strip, and have clashed with Palestinian gunmen.

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• Fatah leaders resign in Hamas-ruled Gaza

  Published: September 20, 2007, 7:41 pm

  Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Israel, Palestinian Territories

  Fatah leaders appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to help reorganise the faction in the Gaza Strip following Hamas's takeover have resigned, Fatah officials said.

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