AFP - Relatives of Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails will travel next month to the Jewish state for a rare visit with the inmates, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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AFP - The European Union’s French presidency called on the Israeli government Friday to take action to halt Jewish settlers from attacking Palestinians near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
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AFP - Two Israeli television channels cancelled plans to broadcast interviews on Friday night of the extremist Jew who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, following a public uproar.
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AP - Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, in his first interviews since the 1995 killing, said he shot the Israeli prime minister because Ariel Sharon and other hawkish ex-generals warned Rabin’s land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians would bring disaster.
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AP - The Lebanese army says 12 Israeli warplanes have violated the country’s airspace by flying reconnaissance missions over northern and southern Lebanon.
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AFP - Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is considering resuming indirect peace talks with Syria during his remaining three months in office, a senior official said on Friday.
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AFP - Israelis from across the political spectrum on Friday slammed a decision to air the first-ever television interview with the extremist Jew who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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AFP - A Palestinian photographer working for AFP suffered head injuries on Friday when settlers hurled rocks at journalists near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses said.
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Reuters - Masked Jewish settlers threw stones at Palestinian photographers Friday near the West Bank city of Hebron, injuring one, Reuters television footage showed.
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Reuters - Being a Jewish settler in occupied territory is the only life Renana Cohen has known for most of her 25 years, and she couldn’t imagine living anywhere else, including within Israel’s borders.
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