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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The U.S. is proposing deploying international observers at the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza to prevent repeated security closures of Gaza’s economic lifeline, a Palestinian negotiator said Monday. The Palestinians support the idea, and Israel is studying it, officials said. CountryWatch: Israel | …

Two kidnapped FOX News journalists freed by gunmen last Sunday described in chilling detail how their abductors calmly discussed killing one of them. “Unfortunately for you, you were with an American,” camerman Olaf Wiig said his captors told him. “A dangerous American… and we’re going to kill him,” referring to …

JERUSALEM – The Israeli army said Thursday that it has transferred control over a portion of the Israel-Lebanon border to Lebanese and international troops for the first time in two decades. Control of a small area of the border near the Israeli border town of Metulla was handed over on …