U.S., EU warn Israel over closure of Gaza border
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U.S. and European security officials have told Israel that European states may withdraw their monitors from the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt unless Israel agrees to keep it open.
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Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom cautioned the European Union Sunday to not back any Palestinian moves to condemn Israel at the United Nations for its controversial West Bank separation barrier.
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Egyptian forces and Hamas police exchanged fire across the Gaza-Egypt border Monday, and defiant Hamas leaders warned they would not permit Gaza's resealed frontier to remain closed for long.
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Israel on Monday offered its first indication it was reassessing relations with the Palestinians after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, suggesting it might coordinate a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian Authority cracks down on militant
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Egypt will close its breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not stand in the way, a Hamas leader said.
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The European Union led mounting calls on Monday for Israel to end its crippling four-day-old blockade of Gaza as Egypt came under pressure to open the territory's only access to the outside world that bypasses the Jewish state.
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The European Union, called yesterday on the Israeli government to end its ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip immediately, maintaining that Israel has the right to defend itself.
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Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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The European Union on Monday  raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's  breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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Hamas's government in the Gaza Strip called on Thursday on Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets and mortar bombs at border crossings with Israel that are used to bring food and other supplies into the territory.
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President Bush called for a halt to Israel's military occupation of land the Palestinians claim for a state and an end to the terrorist threat over the Jewish homeland, spelling out the U.S. bottom line Thursday for ending the long and bloody Mideast conflict.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel risks international sanctions and other serious diplomatic repercussions surrounding the barrier it is building in the West Bank and must be prepared to make further changes in the route, the nation's attorney general has warned in a report.
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The United States issued a fresh travel warning for Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday to include American journalists and aid workers after a spate of violence and political instability.
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Rafah - Israel reopened the Rafah border crossing between the Gza Strip and Egypt on Monday after closing it last week ahead of Judaism&#39;s most solemn day, Yom Kippur, an Egyptian frontier guard said.
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Israel indicated yesterday it would scale back groundforces in some of the most densely populated areas of northern Gaza as the US Administration publicly called on it to end
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Israel declared the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would cut utilities to the territory. The move complicates a U.S. plan to relaunch peace talks aimed at establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Hamas said that it would cooperate with Egypt to close the breached border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday.