The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza.
JERUSALEM, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has reduced its troops in the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah, with the Givati infantry brigade withdrawing Saturday night from the eastern part of the city, the Israeli news website Ynet reported Sunday. The reduction in forces...
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon formed a three- party coalition in January 2005 to secure support for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and four small settlements in the West Bank. In November, however, new Labor party leader Amir Peretz withdrew his party from the government and called for early ...
the PA and Israel was followed by a further, more extreme outbreak of violence, termed thesecond, or Aqṣā, intifada. In an effort to end the fighting, Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharonannounced in late 2003 a plan that centered onwithdrawingIsraeli soldiers and settlers from the Gaza ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Forces chief Herzi Halevi are at odds over a key provision amid cease-fire negotiations -- IDF withdrawing from the Gaza Strip. The IDF chief of staff said that holding on to any part of Gaza or the Philadelphi corri...
Hamas has said it will not release all remaining hostages without Israel ending the war and withdrawing from Gaza. It also demands the release of hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, including top militants. Chehayeb reported from Beirut and Lidm...
Netanyahu refuses to cede to Hamas’s demands to agree a permanent ceasefire and withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza to secure the release of hostages. And he is insisting Israel retains the right to unilaterally enforce any agreement that would lead to Hizbullah withdrawing fro...
United Nations on Monday that it was withdrawing from the 1967 agreement with UNRWA, the main aid agency for Palestinian refugees, following passage of two laws in the country’s parliament, the Knesset, severely limiting the U.N. agency’s operations in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza ...
The army said it was "calling up approximately two reserve brigades for operational activities on the Gazan front", about a week after withdrawing most ground troops from the territory. The Hamas government media office said Israeli...
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) also said it was withdrawing from Al Aqsa hospital. It comes after Doctors Without Borders on Saturday said it would evacuate its staff and their families from the facility. MAP and the IRC said they were “deeply appalled” their teams had to pull out ...