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Israel-Hamas prisoner swap deal near

Reuters US Online Report Top News 10 hours ago

CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel has softened its terms for a prisoner swap with Hamas and the two are nearing a deal to exchange hundreds of jailed Palestinians for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip, officials said on Monday. A delegation ...

Israel says no deal yet on Hamas prisoner swap

AFP Global Edition 11 hours ago

Israel said on Monday there was no deal yet on a prisoner swap with Hamas, as efforts appeared to gather pace on an accord that could see a Gaza-held soldier exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians. "There is no deal yet," Israeli Prime ...

No deal yet on Shalit prisoner swap: Israeli PM

AFP Global Edition 12 hours ago

Israel has not yet reached a prisoner-swap deal with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday as efforts for the release of soldier Gilad Shalit appeared to gather pace. "There is no deal yet," Netanyahu told deputies of his right-wing ...

Memorial Service Held For Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion

Getty Images 13 hours ago

SDE BAKER, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 23: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the annual memorial ceremony for the late Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion Novmber 23, 2009 in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Sde Boker. During the ceremony President Peres ...

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

AP News 14 hours ago

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the Schalit family on Sunday, April 8, 2007, Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, 19, is seen at an unknown location in Israel. The parents and brother of abducted Israeli soldier Schalit held a series ...

Mideast Israel Palestinians Prisoners

AP News 14 hours ago

Noam Schalit, father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, walks from a meting with Israeli government officials at Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The parents and brother of Schalit held a series of meetings with Israeli ...

Germany attacks Israel settlement plan before visit

Reuters US Online Report World News 16 hours ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Monday criticized Israeli plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank, in unusually explicit terms a week before the two countries' leaders meet in Berlin. The comments, made by Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, coincide with German ...

Israel's Peres reports 'progress' in talks to free Shalit

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Sunday there has been "progress" in talks to free soldier Gilad Shalit, held captive by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip for the past three years. "Everyone knows there is progress and I hope it will ...

Israeli president plays down settlement work

Reuters US Online Report World News yesterday

CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel's president said on Sunday expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was a "marginal" issue blocking resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, speaking at a joint news conference with Shimon Peres, ...

Peres In Egypt

Getty Images yesterday

CAIRO - NOVEMBER 22: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) meets with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres during a meeting November 22, 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. Mubarak and Peres ...

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