Israel says it will build nearly 700 housing units in East Jerusalem, despite continued U.S. opposition.
One of the key players in Palestinian politics and therefore in any future peace talks with Israel has spoken to CNN from his Israeli prison cell. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences following his conviction in an Israeli court on murder and other charges related to his role in planning attacks on Israelis during the second Intifada.
Settler leaders in Israel voiced their consternation Thursday over the government's 10-month building freeze, with one top leader telling the country's prime minister that the moratorium will be defied.
Leaders of the Jewish settlement movement poured concrete for the foundations of a synagogue Wednesday in this West Bank settlement south of Jerusalem.
Israel approved a construction plan Tuesday for hundreds of houses in a disputed neighborhood on Jerusalem's southern outskirts, quickly prompting criticism from Washington.
The United Nations Council for Human Rights approved a controversial report Friday which accuses Israel and Hamas of "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during the December-January war in Gaza.
The U.N. Council for Human Rights began debate Thursday over whether to adopt the recommendations of a controversial U.N. report examining the three-week winter war between Israel and the militant group Hamas in Gaza.
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session Thursday to reopen discussion of Israel's three-week offensive against the Islamic militant group Hamas in Gaza.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that he believes within weeks Israel and the Palestinian Authority will begin talks aimed at a permanent resolution of their decades-long conflict.
The State Department is sticking with a strict no-new-settlements policy toward Israel, its spokesman said Thursday, but he held out the possibility that Israelis and Palestinians might eventually take a different path.
Israel says it will build nearly 700 housing units in East Jerusalem, despite continued U.S. opposition.
One of the key players in Palestinian politics and therefore in any future peace talks with Israel has spoken to CNN from his Israeli prison cell. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences following his conviction in an Israeli court on murder and other charges related to his role in planning attacks on Israelis during the second Intifada.
Settler leaders in Israel voiced their consternation Thursday over the government's 10-month building freeze, with one top leader telling the country's prime minister that the moratorium will be defied.
Leaders of the Jewish settlement movement poured concrete for the foundations of a synagogue Wednesday in this West Bank settlement south of Jerusalem.
Israel approved a construction plan Tuesday for hundreds of houses in a disputed neighborhood on Jerusalem's southern outskirts, quickly prompting criticism from Washington.
The United Nations Council for Human Rights approved a controversial report Friday which accuses Israel and Hamas of "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during the December-January war in Gaza.
The U.N. Council for Human Rights began debate Thursday over whether to adopt the recommendations of a controversial U.N. report examining the three-week winter war between Israel and the militant group Hamas in Gaza.
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session Thursday to reopen discussion of Israel's three-week offensive against the Islamic militant group Hamas in Gaza.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that he believes within weeks Israel and the Palestinian Authority will begin talks aimed at a permanent resolution of their decades-long conflict.
The State Department is sticking with a strict no-new-settlements policy toward Israel, its spokesman said Thursday, but he held out the possibility that Israelis and Palestinians might eventually take a different path.
Senior members of the Palestinian Fatah party appear to have suffered a serious upset in a vote to determine the party's key decision-making body.
A senior Palestinian official and three bodyguards were killed Monday when a car bomb targeting his convoy exploded in the vicinity of Mieh Miyeh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.
Hundreds of Palestinian security reinforcements were awaiting orders Saturday as part of a joint Israeli-Palestinian operation in the West Bank town of Hebron, officials said.
An Israeli court has ruled the family of an American couple killed in a terror attack can collect $116 million in damages from the Palestinian Authority.
Israelis and Palestinians are unlikely to agree even on a hypothetical peace plan being promoted by the Bush Administration
Countries at a one-day conference Tuesday agreed to commit more than $240 million to help strengthen the Palestinian Authority's police force and court system
The former British leader's only chance of easing tensions may be to chart a different course than Washington would like
1. ARGENTINA The government's decision to ration gas and electricity for firms rather than raise prices for residential consumers does little to address mounting woes in the energy sector and helps set the stage for future economic problems.
President Bush tries to paint Abbas's defeat in Gaza as a new chance for peace. But is he throwing good money after bad?
The Palestinian President warned of possible collapse in Gaza as Hamas launched new attacks on Palestinian Authority security forces in the south Wednesday after declaring northern Gaza a "closed military area."
The kidney dialysis unit of the public hospital in Nablus is running at capacity: four shifts a day serving nearly 100 patients. It would be a difficult task for any hospital. More so for one that has little money to pay its staff or buy fresh medical supplies.
Israel transferred $100 million in tax collections to the Palestinian Authority Friday, ending a 10-month freeze on the assets, a representative at the prime minister's office said.
An Israeli airstrike hit the building housing the Palestinian government's Interior Ministry early Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian sources told CNN.
Israel broke an uneasy quiet along the Gaza border late Monday, launching airstrikes near the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the territory and inside Gaza City.
Israeli troops and armored vehicles crossed into southern Gaza early Wednesday in what the Israeli military said was an attempt to rescue a soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
The United States will provide $10 million in new medical assistance to Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
Iran will give the Palestinian Authority $50 million and urged other Muslim countries to follow suit, Iran's top diplomat said Sunday.
The United States is leading an "unholy alliance" to undermine democratic elections that put Hamas at the helm of the Palestinian Authority, partly by denying millions of dollars in aid to the new government, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday.
A gunbattle on Friday that erupted between Palestinian security forces and the militant Palestinian Resistance Committees killed three people -- a security force member, a Popular Resistance member and a civilian, medical sources said.
Hamas leaders plan to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza on Sunday night to discuss the lineup of their proposed Palestinian Cabinet.
Israel is on high alert following the siege of a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho and the arrest of wanted Palestinian prisoners.
The United States and United Kingdom wrote Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on March 8 to complain that the authority was not complying with the agreements under which six detainees were held at the prison in Jericho.
In a videotape broadcast Saturday, Osama bin Laden's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, condemns published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked violent protests throughout the Muslim world.
Hamas's political leader has reaffirmed the organization's hard-line stance at the start of a three-day visit to Russia aimed at denting the Palestinian militant group's international isolation, saying that its refusal to recognize Israel was not up for negotiation.
Russia's foreign minister has warned that Hamas faces no future if the militant group fails to change itself into a political party.
The European Union said Monday that it will give the Palestinian Authority $143 million in emergency aid before the newly elected Hamas leadership forms a Palestinian government.
Saudi Arabia will continue supporting the Palestinian Authority despite the election of a government led by the Islamic militant group Hamas -- because it does not want to punish ordinary Palestinians, the kingdom's foreign minister said Wednesday.
Israel's Cabinet Sunday immediately halted the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority, while dwindling aid has helped push the authority into what its president called an economic crisis.
As Hamas members prepare to be sworn in to the Palestinian Legislative Council on Saturday, it is unclear whom they will select as prime minister for the Palestinian government, the group's leader in Gaza City said.
FEB. 3, 2006 A look at hot spots, economic fault lines, and events that might have an impact on global risk.
Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, and despite the group's militant history, there is a chance the soon-to-be Palestinian leaders could turn away from violence, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday.
The international community is willing to provide crucial aid to Palestinians if the new Hamas-led government commits to non-violence, recognizes Israel's right to exist and accepts current Mideast peace agreements, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has said.
Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Sunday for a "unified international position" against a Palestinian government that includes an armed group calling for Israel's destruction.
The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, which has said it favors the destruction of Israel, won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections, securing 76 seats in the 132-member legislature, officials said Thursday.
Hundreds of marchers in southern Gaza called Monday for an end to corruption within the Palestinian Authority, while gunbattles pitted Palestinian police against rival political factions.
Three Britons abducted in southern Gaza on Wednesday have been freed, according to Palestinian security sources.
The leader of Hamas said Friday his group was growing weary of its pact with the Palestinian Authority to avoid conflict with Israel.
A suicide bomber killed five people and injured 35 others -- 14 seriously -- in an attack outside a shopping mall in the northern Israeli city of Netanya, police said Monday.
Israeli security forces rounded up nearly two dozen suspected Palestinian militants in West Bank raids overnight, a military source said Tuesday.
Israeli aircraft fired a rocket Friday targeting a car carrying Islamic Jihad militants, killing one person and wounding another, Palestinian sources said.
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for an apparent suicide bombing that killed at least five people in the northern Israeli city of Hadera, Israel authorities said.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have agreed to meet Tuesday in an effort to push the peace process forward, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials.
For a sixth straight day, Israeli forces rounded up suspected Palestinian militants across the West Bank, killing three of them and arresting another dozen, an Israel Defense Forces representative said Thursday.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas toured the evacuated Jewish settlement Eli Sinai Monday, calling Israel's withdrawal a "great moment" but adding much more needed to be accomplished for the Palestinians to feel "happy and free."
An unknown number of masked gunmen shot and killed a cousin of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his Gaza City home early Wednesday and abducted his son, Palestinian security sources said.
Former Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday bemoaned the impending removal of settlers from Gaza as "good intentions badly played out," while a senior Palestinian legislator expressed skepticism mixed with hopefulness.
Thirty Palestinians were arrested early Saturday and accused of being terrorists by Israelis.
Four convicted killers were executed Sunday by Palestinian security forces in Gaza, a Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas underwent a successful minor heart procedure, one of his top advisers said Wednesday in an interview with WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency.
Israel Defense Forces said three Palestinian teenagers who were shot and killed by Israeli military were not playing soccer, but were actually involved in smuggling weapons from Egypt into Gaza.
Israel turned over security control of the West Bank city of Tulkarem to the Palestinian Authority on Monday after negotiators reached an agreement earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel transferred security control of the West Bank city of Jericho to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, but not without a brief delay in a formal signing ceremony.
The United States has "firm evidence" that leaders of the Syrian-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad authorized and were "actively involved in planning" Friday's suicide bombing in Israel, a Bush administration official said Tuesday.
A visit by Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Nasr Yousef prompted a brief but tense standoff Tuesday in Jenin when three militants from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fired guns into the air and Yousef ordered their arrests.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has told an international gathering in London that the Palestinian Authority has made a final decision to unify its patchwork security services, a move called for by the United States and Israel.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he believes peace with Israel is possible -- but that an end to violence is a "mutual commitment" -- ahead of a conference designed to build support for the new Palestinian leadership.
There will be "no diplomatic progress" in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process unless the Palestinian Authority takes "vigorous action" against local terrorists, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday.
As Palestinian and Israeli authorities arrested seven people in connection with the deadly bombing in Tel Aviv, accusations of blame for the killings began to focus on Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Syria.
Less than three weeks after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a cease-fire amid newfound optimism about the Mideast peace process, a suicide bomber attacked a nightclub in a popular beachfront area of Tel Aviv late Friday night, killing four people and wounding at least 65 others, according to Israeli police and emergency services.
After a three-day political battle, the main Palestinian Fatah faction agreed on a revised Palestinian Cabinet lineup submitted by Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei, chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said Wednesday.
Facing threats to his plan to withdraw settlements from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday he "will do everything in [his] power to prevent a rift in the nation" over the issue.
Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad reiterated their promise Saturday to halt attacks against Israel, but stopped short of joining an oral cease-fire pact reached four days ago between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
An Israeli Cabinet committee on Thursday approved the release of at least 500 Palestinian prisoners, a military withdrawal from five West Bank cities -- and an end to targeted killings of suspected Palestinian militants, sources in the prime minister's office said.
Israeli forces will withdraw from four West Bank cities this week and hand over security control to the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian officials said Sunday.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei has banned the carrying of unlicensed weapons into areas controlled by Palestinian security, Cabinet member Saeb Erakat said Thursday.
Israeli and Palestinian officials gave different accounts Sunday about the status of a proposed agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian militant groups to end terrorist attacks on Israeli targets.
Israeli officials said Thursday that the Palestinian Authority has proposed to deploy up to 1,000 members of its security forces in Gaza to prevent the firing of Qassam rockets and mortars at Israeli towns and settlements.
Palestinian Authority security officials said Wednesday they had begun redeploying their forces in Gaza to stop attacks on Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday ordered Palestinian security forces to stop attacks by Palestinian militants on Israelis.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the suspension of all contacts with the Palestinian Authority on Friday, following an attack by Palestinian gunmen that killed six Israelis civilians, Israeli officials said.
Palestinian election officials on Monday declared Mahmoud Abbas the president-elect of the Palestinian Authority, perhaps beginning a new era after the death of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.
If polls are correct, Palestinian voters will elect Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday to be the second president of the Palestinian Authority and the successor to legendary Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is traveling Monday to the Middle East where he will promote an international conference he plans to host in London after next month's Palestinian election. CNN's European Political Editor Robin Oakley spoke to anchor Tony Campion about the visit.
Citing a "renewed opportunity for peace" in the Middle East, the Bush administration said Wednesday it will give $20 million directly to the Palestinian Authority.
From an Israeli prison, popular Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti reversed his decision Wednesday about seeking elected office and submitted his name to become a candidate to succeed the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.
Marwan Barghouti, the popular Palestinian leader currently imprisoned by Israel on terrorism charges, plans to run for president of the Palestinian Authority, Israel Radio reported Thursday.
Cooperation between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority in advance of the Palestinian election to replace Yasser Arafat has been good so far, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday at an international conference in Egypt.
Secretary of State Colin Powell met separately Monday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders for the first time since the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
The Bush administration is talking to Congress about resuming direct U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority, the State Department said Thursday.
Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Mahmoud Abbas escaped injury on Sunday after masked gunmen opened fire near him inside a tent where people were mourning Yasser Arafat.
In contrast to the frenzy surrounding the burial of Yasser Arafat, a somber mood has fallen over the Ramallah compound as a steady stream of mourners pay their final respects to the late Palestinian leader.
World leaders and Palestinian representatives gathered in Cairo Friday morning for Yasser Arafat's military funeral service.
Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen by many Israelis as a ruthless terrorist and a roadblock to peace, died early Thursday in Paris.
After much negotiation and not a little compromise, it's been decided that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be buried in Ramallah, inside the Palestinian Authority compound that had been his virtual prison for the past three years.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat still was clinging to life late Wednesday, a Muslim cleric said, as Palestinian leaders made burial plans.
In a lengthy address to the Palestinian people, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat admitted Wednesday that his government had made mistakes and offered solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who are under a self-imposed hunger strike.
Egypt is proposing a Mideast peace conference in October, according to Moshe Debi, an adviser to Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.
Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades burned down offices of the Palestinian intelligence services Sunday in southern Gaza, protesting a security shake-up announced by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Yasser Arafat vowed to reorganize the Palestinian Authority's security setup Saturday amid turmoil that included the offered resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei.
A few hours after militants abducted him, the police chief of Gaza and the West Bank was freed Friday, Palestinian Authority officials said.
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