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/ 28 February 2008
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Thursday to make Hamas militants pay a heavy price for rocket attacks despite United States concerns about civilians in the Gaza Strip. As five more Palestinians were killed, Olmert held talks in Tokyo with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
For 24 hours Israel has bombed Lebanon in a staggering show of force unseen across the border for at least 10 years, evoking memories of the long and bloody occupation of its northern neighbour. ”War,” screamed the front-page headline in Israel’s best-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper. ”Declaration of War” shrieked its rival, Maariv.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will on Sunday meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Egypt, the highest-level such contact since radical faction Hamas won a January election. "Mrs Livni and Mr Abbas will meet on Sunday [at a meeting] in which Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres will participate," foreign ministry spokesperson Mark Regev said.
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/ 5 December 2005
Five people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack at a shopping mall close to the city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police and medical sources said. The blast, responsibility for which was claimed by Islamic Jihad, went off at around 11.30am at the entrance to the Hasharon shopping centre in the upmarket resort town of Netanya.
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/ 2 November 2005
Ten years after a Jewish extremist murdered Yitzak Rabin, the threat of another political assassination still haunts Israel as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets bogged down in a fifth year. A survey published ahead of the 10th anniversary of Rabin’s death shows that one in three Israelis believes a new political assassination is likely.
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/ 27 October 2005
Israel intensified demands on Thursday for Tehran to be expelled from the United Nations amid an international outcry over a call by Iran’s president for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map. The international community expressed outrage at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory speech.
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/ 19 October 2004
Israeli authorities are bracing themselves for a violent backlash to the planned pull-out from Gaza, as growing fears were voiced on Tuesday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s life is in danger from extremists. ”I am afraid that someone will try to kill the prime minister,” Labour party leader Shimon Peres told the Maariv daily.