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Two gunmen tried to rob a branch of Bank Hapoalim Ltd. today in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, and shot four people dead, police said. One then killed himself and the other was injured.
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Israeli police detained the top Palestinian Muslim cleric for questioning today, then released him without charge amid denunciations by the Palestinians and the Jordanian parliament.
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Jordan summoned Israel’s ambassador to Amman and expressed its “strong” condemnation of Israeli actions at a holy site in Jerusalem, the official Petra news agency said.
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A knife-wielding Palestinian killed an Israeli settler in the West Bank and Israel carried out a deadly air strike on a Gaza Strip man it linked to a rocket attack.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to project a united front yesterday, affirming an unbreakable alliance between their two countries even as differences persist on Iran and restarting peace talks with Palestinians.
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Gaza Strip militants fired rockets for the second time in less than 24 hours, as Israeli forces vowed to defend residents and carried out the first air strikes on the Hamas-ruled territory since a November offensive there.
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Israeli police are investigating the possibility that an attack on a monastery was meant as retaliation for the eviction of Jewish settlers from a West Bank outpost.
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The Israeli forest fire that took 42 lives and forced some 17,000 people to flee their homes is almost extinguished, with only one small blaze left to put out, police said.
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A Mideast peace agreement leading to an independent Palestinian state can’t be achieved without both sides giving ground, President Barack Obama said today as he urged new ways of approaching the conflict.
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Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli police car in the West Bank, seriously wounding one officer, Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said by phone. Two other policemen in the vehicle were wounded less seriously, he added. Police are searching the area of the attack for the assailants, he said.
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