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When Orly Simon and her husband Yoav look out from Gilo, their neighborhood on the southern edge of Jerusalem, across a valley they can just make out where Jacqueline Zeidan and her husband Fayez used to live in Beit Jala. The families have much in common. Each has young daughters, two for the Simons, three for the Zeidans, all very cute. Both wives are pregnant. But more than a valley separates them. The Simons are Israelis; the Zeidans are Palestinians. Throughout the intifadeh, Palestinian gunmen from Beit Jala have periodically shot at and shelled Gilo. Israeli forces have retaliated...
...reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three held for training leftist guerrillas in Colombia. The British government started dismantling military installations in the province. ISRAEL Troop Withdrawal Under strong diplomatic pressure, Israel agreed to withdraw from Bethlehem and Beit Jala, two West Bank towns it occupied after the assassination of cabinet minister Rehavan Ze?evi. Troops had already pulled out of Beit Rima, where they reportedly captured two suspected members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which claimed responsibility for Ze?evi?s murder. At least...
...case, Israel was not waiting for Arafat to move. It continued its assassinations Thursday, killing Atef Abayat, the leader of the Palestinian militia Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, whom Israel blames for killing at least five Israelis. Abayat's booby-trapped car exploded in Bethlehem. In response, Palestinian gunmen in nearby Beit Jala fired on the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem throughout the night. Israel moved its tanks deep into Bethlehem and Beit Jala by Friday. Israeli tanks were on the move around other Palestinian towns...
...Bush administration the wrong way. When Israel tries to nab suspects with a larger force, it doesn't look so good from Washington's viewpoint. In fact, it looks little different from the big operations in the major Palestinian towns. Israel sent tanks and troops to the village of Beit Rima, north of Ramallah, last week, because it believed one of Ze'evi's killers may have taken refuge with his relatives there. Palestinian gunmen resisted and five were killed. In the end, neither of the two assassins still on the run were found. At least one of them fled...
...ISRAEL Beit Jala Incursion Israeli troops and tanks pulled back from the Palestinian-administered town of Beit Jala after a two-day occupation that drew sharp international criticism. The European Union said it brokered the withdrawal in return for a commitment by Palestinians to stop gunmen firing at the nearby Jewish settlement of Gilo. But Israel was on alert for possible attacks to avenge the killing earlier in the week of Abu Ali Mustafa, the highest-ranking victim of Israel's assassination policy since the current intifadeh began...