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...ordered his West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub to stop the gunfire that had been peppering the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. The quiet held until a Palestinian force led by one of Rajoub's rivals opened fire late Thursday. In response, Israeli guns lit up the night over Beit Jalla. In his office in Gaza City, Arafat lit into the head of his National Security Forces in the West Bank. "Find out who are the sons of bitches shooting at Gilo," Arafat said, according to people who were with him. His hands shaking with fury, Arafat yelled, "Screw them...
...made their decision. Bethlehem, which lies seven or eight miles south of central Jerusalem, has been a flash point of confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli troops during the current intifada, and all access points to the town have been tightly guarded by Israeli troops. The Bethlehem suburb of Beit Jalla has suffered heavy Israeli shelling after being used as cover by Palestinian snipers firing on the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. Municipal authorities cited the death of seven Palestinian youths from the town over the past two months as their reason for refraining from celebration - Palestinian leaders fear that...
...Gilead Sher, Barak's top peace negotiator. The Prime Minister had charged Peres and Sher with pulling Arafat back from the brink. The two men knew the urgency of their task. The previous night, gun battles had raged between the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo and the Palestinian town of Beit Jalla. Israel had fired tank shells and missiles. An Israeli security guard had been shot in East Jerusalem, and even as Peres set off for Gaza a pipe bomb exploded near the Jerusalem Theatre. Peres knew that to travel from Jerusalem to Gaza, a distance of 50 miles...
...Iraq if Israel tried to retake the Gaza Strip. He knows that his 34,000 lightly armed paramilitaries can't stand up to a real onslaught from Israel, which has standing armed forces of 186,000 and some of the world's most sophisticated weaponry. The mayors of Bethlehem, Beit Jalla and Beit Sahour, three Palestinian towns south of Jerusalem, faxed Arafat's chief of National Security Forces in the West Bank, Tawfik Tirawi, begging him to restrain the gunmen whose sniping drew Israeli retaliation on their citizens...
...test case, so far, has been the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, on the southern edge of Jerusalem, and the nearby Palestinian town of Beit Jalla. For three weeks Palestinian gunmen in Beit Jalla have fired in the night toward Gilo. Last week Israel increased its response from rifle fire to tank shells and then helicopter missiles. One missile shattered the wall of Jamil Muslet's living room. It left a 5-ft. hole in the 200-year-old stone walls and shards of blue window glass on the floor. Looking across the steep, rocky valley to Gilo, less than...