Word: ariel
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...people were injured by the one-ton guided bomb, which destroyed two buildings and blew open three others. The attack's target was Sheik Salah Shehadeh, a founder and leader of the Izzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hailed the killing of Shehadeh as "one of our major successes." Yet the attack was condemned around the world, and U.S. President George W. Bush called it "heavy-handed." Israeli President Moshe Katsav said Israel's political leadership "must take responsibility" for the "mishap" of civilian deaths. Diplomats noted...
...Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the most important fact was that Israel's midnight air in Gaza killed an alleged terror mastermind - the resultant civilian casualties were a regrettable side issue. For the Palestinians, throughout the Arab world and even in the West the focus was on the thirteen bystanders killed (nine of them children) and 140 wounded in the strike. Those divergent responses suggest that despite U.S. and allied efforts to forge a new path toward peace, a new upsurge of violence may be inevitable. And that has the Bush administration more than a little concerned...
...Salah Shehade, the leader of the military wing of Hamas, was the target of an Israeli missile fired from an F-16 fighter into a Gaza City apartment building early Tuesday. Accusing Shehade of orchestrating dozens of terror attacks on Israeli civilians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the air strike one of the greatest successes of his tenure despite the regretful loss of innocent lives...
...blew themselves up in a non-Jewish Tel Aviv neighborhood, killing three bystanders and injuring more than 40 others. Earlier, eight people were killed and 20 wounded when an Israeli bus carrying settlers was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen inside the West Bank. The attacks showed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's policy of occupying West Bank towns and imposing a curfew on the Palestinian population has not destroyed the militants' ability to strike. The gunmen, dressed in Israeli military uniform, set off a roadside bomb, which halted the bus, and then gunned down the passengers as they fled...
...what do the Israelis do next? Forced to fashion a tough response to two terror attacks in two days that left nine Israelis dead, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has few good options on the table. Indeed, the arrest of 21 male relatives of Wednesday's Tel Aviv suicide bombers in order to exile them from the West Bank signaled Israel's despair - the move, yet to be legally approved by Israel's attorney general, would formalize the principle of collective punishment, and it raised alarm among Israeli human rights groups. But the fact that even dovish foreign minister Shimon Peres...