Sharon OKs Wall Move Closer to Israel
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The separation barrier in the West Bank will move closer to Israel in one area to minimize hardship to Palestinians, leaving three small Jewish settlements on the Palestinian side, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM Israel&#39;s Parliament appeared poised Tuesday to approve Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza pullout plan, clearing the way for a withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Palestinian territory for the first time in history.
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In a major victory for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Knesset voted today to approve his Gaza withdrawal plan and vacate all settlements from the Gaza Strip and some from the West Bank by next year.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed to changes in the route of Israel&#39;s West Bank barrier on Monday but insisted on keeping key Jewish settlement blocks inside, political sources said.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers approved cash advances Tuesday of up to $115,000 to Jewish settlers willing to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank - the first concrete step toward carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's contentious pullout plan.    In a sign of growing tensions, Israeli police said Sharon and an official planning the withdrawal have been the targets of death threats by Jewish extremists...
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GAZA CITY, Sept. 4 -- Israel's high court ordered the military Tuesday to reroute the separation barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin, the scene of sometimes rowdy weekly demonstrations against the project that Israeli and Palestinian activists say helped bring about their rare legal victory.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confirmed his intention on Monday to begin the controversial pullout of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in June next year, parliamentary sources said.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved the construction of 1,000 more homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials said Tuesday, violating a U.S.-backed peace plan that calls for a building freeze.    Sharon's aides said they had Washington's tacit approval for the construction, because the houses would be built inside existing settlements that are among the enclaves Israel insists on keeping under any peace settlement with the Palestinians...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a major Israeli offensive that would re-occupy northern parts of the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian fighters firing homemade rockets into Israel , Israeli Army Radio said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has formally asked parliament to approve his Gaza withdrawal plan, saying it will strengthen Israel and will move the Jewish state forward &quot;on the road to peace.
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TEL AVIV  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he would press ahead with his Gaza disengagement plan despite a vote by his Likud party a day earlier blocking efforts to broaden the governing coalition.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, facing a  party mutiny over his plan to quit the Gaza Strip, has approved  1,000 more Israeli settler homes in the West Bank in a move  that drew a cautious response Tuesday from Washington.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave  the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of  northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed  the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four  years.
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Israel's parliament ratified Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a  pivotal step toward the first evacuation of settlers from  occupied territory Palestinians want for a state.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved tenders to build 1,000 more Israeli settler homes in the occupied West Bank, plans that had been shelved earlier to avoid discord with Washington, political sources say.
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JERUSALEMâEmbattled Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon toppled another hurdle on his long and winding road to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday, winning cabinet approval for a bill to compensate Jewish settlers who leave and punish those
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has  approved building tenders for 1,000 more Israeli settlement  homes in the occupied West Bank frozen earlier to avoid  upsetting the United States, political sources said on Tuesday.