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TIME.com: Jamil, you live 500 yards from Beit Jala, which the Israeli army reoccupied last night. What is happening there right...
...Jamil Hamad: There have been ongoing clashes since last night. The exchange of fire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers is almost constant. The Israelis have their tanks in the center of Beit Jala, and they're scaling towers to try and control the situation. They've also imposed a total curfew on the residents of the town. But the Palestinians are continuing to fire both at the soldiers in Beit Jala, and also at the neighboring Israeli area of Gilo. The army has said it is going to stay in Beit Jala until it is assured that there will...
...know. It seems that the presence of the Israeli soldiers in Beit Jala is actually inciting them to continue firing. I don't know how long will continue. It's more or less like a war here. The residents of Beit Jala had in the past appealed to Yasser Arafat, as well as to embassies and church leaders, to stop Palestinians firing from Beit Jala, so as to avoid the Israeli reaction. But now most of their anger is directed at the Israelis...
...Israeli army sustain the permanent occupation of Beit Jala that they have threatened...
There is no chance of Israel's halting its collaborator operation. It is stepping up activities on all fronts. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened that the next time a Palestinian gunman fires a shot from the town of Beit Jala across the valley to Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem built on occupied land, Israel will invade the Palestinian town. Last week Israel moved tanks to the edge of Beit Jala as part of what Israeli military officials call a "rolling operation." As in the Jenin incursion, the aim is to mount different types of actions with constantly varying amounts...