Israel approves 10-month West Bank settlement halt
AP - 26 minutes agoOfficials in the Israeli prime minister's office say the Security Cabinet has approved a 10-month freeze in new construction in West Bank settlements.
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Officials in the Israeli prime minister's office say the Security Cabinet has approved a 10-month freeze in new construction in West Bank settlements.
Israel's prime minister on Wednesday proposed a 10-month freeze on new West Bank settlement construction in what he said was an attempt to jump-start Mideast peace talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to announce Wednesday a formal plan to limit settlement construction for 10 months, hoping to revive talks with the Palestinians, government sources said.
Palestinian officials are rejecting an expected offer from Israel's prime minister to partially freeze West Bank settlement construction, even before it is made public.
Palestinians Immediately Reject Proposal, which Covers West Bank but not East Jerusalem; Prisoner Swap in Doubt
The media in Israel and the Palestinian territories has focused on one item above all else this week, the likelihood of an imminent swap of prisoners. Israel is expected to release some 1,000 Palestinians currently held in jails around Israel in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was taken away into the Gaza Strip in a cross-border attack over three years ago by Palestinian ...
Opposition parties and the Jewish community criticized a visit by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Venezuela, citing worries over his denial of the Holocaust, human rights violations and Iran's nuclear program.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Prisoner swap talks between Hamas and Israel have hit a snag over some of the top militants the Islamic group wants freed and a deal is unlikely in the coming days, Hamas officials said Wednesday.
Gaza City/Jerusalem/Damascus - A delegation of top Hamas leaders from the Gaza Strip was in Syria Wednesday to consult with the Palestinian Islamist movement's exiled leadership over whether to accept Israel's latest offer for a prisoners swap. The d...
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is on a list of prisoners that the Hamas group has demanded be freed in exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , his lawyer Khader Shkirat said.
Almost a year after Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, the coastal enclave is still struggling to recover. Most animals at the Gaza Zoo died during the fighting. Now, with the help of animal smugglers, the zoo is trying to rebuild.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is on a list of prisoners that the Hamas group has demanded be freed in exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , his lawyer Khader Shkirat said today.
GAZA STRIP Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.
At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebrand politician many Palestinians believe is a likely future president who can pull them out of their current political deadlock.
Israel's military says it has carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A senior Hamas official says prisoner swap talks with Israel have hit a snag over some of the top militants the Islamic group wants freed.