US President George W. Bush said Tuesday he will send a top diplomat to Israel next month to continue negotiations on a new, 10-year military aid deal with the Jewish state.
Israel has arrested 12 members of a cell that planned to kidnap American citizens, Israeli security officials said Tuesday.
Israel has arrested 12 members of a cell that planned to kidnap American citizens, security officials said Tuesday.
Hundreds of terrified Gazans fleeing Hamas rule, including two people wounded nearly 24 hours earlier, were trapped Tuesday in a squalid tunnel at a main crossing with Israel, hoping to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in the West Bank.
Israel allowed 12 truckloads of desperately needed food and medicines to cross into Gaza Tuesday in the first real easing of the blockade it imposed after Hamas's takover of the impoverished territory.
President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel tried again Tuesday to strengthen the position of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party.
Hundreds of terrified Gazans fleeing Hamas rule were trapped at a main crossing with Israel on Tuesday, hoping to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in the West Bank.
Israel plans to tighten a financial clampdown on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that would choke off all but humanitarian and basic supplies, senior Israeli and Western officials said on Tuesday.
Unprepared for the Hamas coup last week that routed the Fatah faction from Gaza, Israel is now faced with the quandary of what to do with the sudden emergence of an Islamic militant ministate on its borders.
By DIAA HADID Hundreds of terrified Gazans fleeing Hamas rule were trapped at a main crossing with Israel on Tuesday, hoping to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in the West Bank. Fearing death or persecution, Gazans flocked to the Erez passage after Hamas militants wrested control of the coastal strip from Fatah security forces last week. Israel, which has no ...