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Article: U.S., Israel lock horns over 4% of West ...
The Washington Times;  March 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... tough bargaining over 4 percent of the West Bank, a tiny area that Washington insists ... agreement on an Israeli pullback from the West Bank. Mr. Ross also met later last night ... would withdraw from 13.1 percent of the West Bank over 12 weeks. Each step of the withdrawal ...

Article: Mid-East crisis: Arafat exile offer as fighting intensifies; ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  April 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Palestinians trapped in the Ramallah compound of West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub surrendered ... here," Sharon said during a tour of West Bank army bases. "Arafat will not be able ... an office in his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah since Friday. Israeli ...

Article: British-born children trapped in West ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  April 10, 2002 ;     490 words ... ... mother told yesterday how her four children were trapped in a West Bank town under siege by Israeli troops. The British-born children ... were snatched by their Palestinian father while visiting the West Bank two years ago. Eileen Sutton, 42, from Barry, south Wales ...

Article: Tanks move in to West Bank.(World ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 20, 2001 ;     498 words ... ... ISRAELI tanks and troops moved into Bethlehem and Beit Jalla in the West Bank early yesterday after a Palestinian militia leader was killed in ... which three Palestinian gunmen where killed in an explosion in the West Bank town of Bethlehem

Article: New bid for mid-east peace; Israel prepares for troop withdrawal ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 27, 2001 ;     684 words ...ISRAEL will start pulling out of West Bank towns, starting with Bethlehem, Cabinet ministers said yesterday ... Ariel Sharon after constant US pressure to withdraw from six West Bank towns, the government issued a statement saying that departure ...

Article: Shot woman has baby after husband killed; Five dead despite bid ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  February 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... yesterday overshadowed tentative Israeli attempts to reduce tension in the West Bank. The day began with Israeli tanks being withdrawn from in front of Yasser Arafat's West Bank but angry Palestinian officials said the move was meaningless due to ...

Article: Major Israeli raid in West Bank ; World ...
The Independent - London;  February 26, 2007 ;     243 words ...NABLUS Hundreds of Israeli troops have poured into Nablus, placing large areas of the city under curfew and conducting house- to-house raids in one of the largest military operations in the West Bank in months. Two soldiers and several Palestinians were wounded.