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Four Palestinians -- including a senior militant and a college professor -- and an Israeli special forces officer were killed in fierce firefights early Tuesday in the West Bank city of Nablus, according to an Israeli military spokeswoman and Palestinian security sources and medical officials.
Palestinian guerrillas on Friday executed a suspected collaborator with Israel after onlookers in the town square here called for him to die.
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that a contentious section of the barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank violates the rights of thousands of Palestinian residents.
Israeli troops discovered a Palestinian militants' hideout in the West Bank city of Nablus and pounded it with grenades and gunfire.
Military police interrogated three Israeli reserve soldiers who organized an exhibit of photographs and videotapes chronicling mistreatment of Palestinians by troops and Jewish settlers.
Many of the questions raised by the Abu Ghraib scandal, and by the United States's self-declared war on terrorism, are the kinds that Israel has been wrestling with for decades.
Israeli businesses will be withdrawn from an industrial zone on the border with the Gaza Strip that has been a source of employment for thousands of Palestinians for more than three decades, a high-ranking Israeli official announced Tuesday.
The Israeli cabinet on Sunday voted for a modified version of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip that included contradictory language about the evacuation of Jewish settlements.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fired two members of his cabinet on Friday, gaining the cabinet majority needed to pass his Gaza Strip withdrawal plan but placing the future of his coalition government in doubt.
A day after the formation of an interim government in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday that the effort to defeat terrorists in the Middle East echoes World War II.
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