Person: Gideon Saar

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Exit polls indicate election win for Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and his hard-line allies have won a narrow majority in parliamentary elections, exit polls show.

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Netanyahu shores up Sharon coalition

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Arafat names cabinet committed to reform

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Israel shoots five in attacks

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Troops shoot dead five Palestinians

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Sharon and Arafat play blame game as Palestinian gunman is killed

Israel accuses Egypt of meddling

An Israeli government official today accused Egypt of trying to meddle in politics – bringing into the open a rift over Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s overtures to the Israeli left and his harsh criticism of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Sun, 11 Aug, 2002

Israel hits out at UN stance

Israel today sharply criticised the United Nations, saying it was upset with a UN resolution, wary of UN plans to investigate the Jenin refugee camp, and that it might take action against the UN’s Mideast envoy.

Sun, 21 Apr, 2002

Red Crescent begins grim work in Jenin camp

Palestinian medics began searching for bodies in the devastated Jenin refugee camp today, as Yasser Arafat conditionally accepted an Israeli proposal for a Mideast peace summit led by the United States.

Mon, 15 Apr, 2002

Five Palestinian children killed in Israeli rocket attack

At least five Palestinian children have died in an apparent Israeli rocket attack on a car in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Mon, 04 Mar, 2002

Israel kills six Palestinians in further Mid-East violence

Israeli soldiers have killed at least six Palestinians in separate incidents across the occupied Palestinian territories today.

Mon, 04 Mar, 2002

Israel steps up military reprisals

Senior Israeli Cabinet ministers and security officials today ordered increased military pressure on the Palestinians after a weekend burst of violence in which four Palestinian attacks claimed 21 Israeli lives and 12 Palestinians died.

Mon, 04 Mar, 2002

Sharon stands firm on truce conditions

Ariel Sharon’s advisers have today claimed that the Palestinians have not yet met the Israeli Prime Minister’s condition for a formal truce - a week without attacks.

Wed, 02 Jan, 2002

Israel tightens grip on Palestinian towns

Three Palestinians were killed today as Israeli tanks moved deeper into West Bank towns, tightening their grip on biblical Bethlehem and five other towns in the widest operation against the Palestinians in years.

Sun, 21 Oct, 2001

Israel demands arrest of cabinet minister's killers

Israel is demanding that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's forces arrest and hand over the Palestinians who assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister.

Thu, 18 Oct, 2001

Israelis raid Palestinian buildings, blast police station

Israeli warplanes demolished a building in the West Bank, in retaliation for yesterday's suicide bombing in Jerusalem.

Fri, 10 Aug, 2001

Israeli forces target disputed east Jerusalem

Israeli police have closed down Palestinian political and police centres in east Jerusalem in response to the suicide bombing which killed 15.

Fri, 10 Aug, 2001

Burns steps up ‘shuttle diplomacy’

The new US Mideast envoy today urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to do everything possible to stop attacks against Israel and called on both sides to implement recommendations of an international commission.

Mon, 28 May, 2001