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Israeli combat planes struck a pair of Hezbollah targets inside southern Lebanon on Saturday in response to heavy fire targeting the Israeli military near Shebaa Farms, the Israeli military said.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres says his country is ready to ease restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israeli forces have fired mortars at Palestinian targets in northern Gaza in response to what they say were attacks on Israeli settlements.

Israel has launched air, land and sea strikes on Gaza in the most intensive raids of the seven months of violence.

Jerusalem Correspondent Jerrold Kessel has been following the Israeli-Palestinian fighting and the efforts by Egypt and Jordan to revive peace talks.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdulilah al-Khatib will visit Israel on Monday for talks with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on how to revive the moribund Middle East peace process, officials said on Thursday.

Despite an overnight attack by Israel on a Syrian radar station in Lebanon, Jordanian foreign minister Abdul-Ilah Khatib met leaders of both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Monday to pitch a peace proposal.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Ankara, Turkey, and other cities Saturday, the latest in a wave of demonstrations against the government's handling of the economy.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon came to power following February's landslide election victory on a platform of peace and security.

Gun battles between Israelis and Palestinians raged into Saturday in the West Bank and Gaza.

Jewish settlers are due to bury a 10-month-old Jewish baby girl killed by Palestinian sniper fire.

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has promised unconditional steps in lifting restrictions on Palestinian territories but a cease-fire remains elusive.

Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is to travel to Cairo to discuss a joint Egypt-Jordanian peace proposal amid continuing violence.

Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs have held talks in a bid to curb violence that has racked the Mideast over the past two weeks.

Israeli and Palestinians leaders hope to meet on Wednesday -- one day after Israel launched rocket attacks against Palestinian targets.

More than 30 Palestinians were wounded early Wednesday when Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian refugee camp with tanks and helicopters, witnesses said.

As mortar shells split the air in Gaza and the West Bank on Wednesday, Israeli and Palestinian officials met in Greece for a frank, difficult exchange of views, but neither side offered much hope of negotiations resuming.

A tanker smuggling thousands of tons of Iraqi oil sank trying to break United Nations sanctions, a U.S. Navy official said Sunday.

Government workers have been deployed on Dubai beaches after bathers began to see traces of an oil spill.

Israeli and Palestinian security officials met Wednesday night with U.S. officials in Tel Aviv, just hours after Israel launched a military strike at a refugee camp in Palestinian-controlled Gaza.

The Israeli Army has attacked the Palestinian naval headquarters, killing one person, Palestinian sources say.

Israeli forces fired on the Palestinian-controlled village of Beit Lahaya in northern Gaza Sunday night, hitting an office used by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's political movement, sources told CNN.

Israel has attacked Palestinian security targets, killing one person and injuring at least 11.

Israeli helicopters fired on four houses in the Palestinian-controlled Gaza village of Beit Lahaya Sunday night, Palestinian sources told CNN.

Violent clashes have continued in the Middle East following two Israeli incursions into Palestinian-controlled areas.

Israeli forces opened fire with tanks Friday on a Palestinian Authority police installation and training ground after two mortar shells landed near Netzarim in northern Gaza.

A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.

Israel and the Palestinians have reached an understanding on how to handle a cease-fire in the West Bank and Gaza, but it cannot be termed an agreement until it is put in writing, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Monday.

With Israel having withdrawn from an area of Gaza it had reoccupied for less than 24 hours, and the re-entry being condemned by the United States, CNN's Jerrold Kessel analyses the effect on their relationship.

CNN political analyst Robin Oakley sees more U.S. involvement over the growing Middle East conflict

CNN political analyst Robin Oakley sees more U.S. involvement in the growing Middle East conflict:

Attempts are being made to salvage a leaking tanker which sank off the Gulf state's northern coast, carrying 1,300 tonnes of fuel.

The Palestinian Authority is the limited self-rule government for the West Bank and Gaza. It was established in 1994 to begin the process of autonomy for the Palestinian territories under the terms of the Oslo accords.

Israeli officials have blamed Palestinian militants for two fresh bomb attacks in the Middle East.

The death toll in Turkey's prison hunger strike has reached 20 after a woman starved to death.

Two Palestinians have died amid fierce fighting between hundreds of Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

Bowed down by crosses and carrying candles, Christian pilgrims Friday retraced Jesus's walk to crucifixion in subdued Holy Land Easter celebrations.

Explosions and gunfire were the order of the day in the Mideast, a region steadily descending into a morass of ever-increasing violence.

Israeli tanks have shelled the Palestinian town of Deir el-Belah in central Gaza, forcing residents to evacuate, witnesses told CNN on Wednesday.