Gaza City  - Israeli military snipers shot and killed a Palestinian during an army incursion east of Gaza City early Friday, according to the official Voice of Palestine radio.

Gaza  - Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday he wants to have talks with the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas under the supervision of the Arab League.

Tel Aviv - Hezbollah's handover of remains over the weekend are from nine Israeli soldiers, Israel Radio announced on Monday, at the early conclusion of forensic investigations.

It was earlier reported that the soldiers were killed in the 2006 war with Lebanon, however, it will still take several days for the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine to release a final report.

Hezbollah released the remains Sunday to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) remains of Israeli soldiers during a handover of a convicted Hezbollah spy, Nassim Nisr. He had been convicted for espionage by Israel and had served six years in prison, was handed over at the Naquora border crossing point.

The identification tags of soldier Ron Maschiach were also handed over.

Istanbul  - You cannot eat petrodollars, which is an inconvenient truth for people in the oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies these days.

Cairo  - The Palestinian militant group Hamas has rejected an Israeli proposal to hold indirect marathon talks, to be mediated by Egypt, over a deal for an exchange of prisoners, a Hamas official s

Tel Aviv  - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday that Syria must distance itself from Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran, if peace negotiations with Damascus are to succeed.