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This week saw increased military action in Israel and the West Bank. Palestinians fired a mortar attack onto disputed land within the borders of Jerusalem. Israeli military forces, meanwhile, positioned troops and tanks around West Bank hot spots, and an Apache helicopter fired a missile into a Bethlehem house, killing four and wounding more. Thursday the foreign ministers of the G8 countries, including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, issued a statement backing the deployment of outside monitors in the region...
...TIME.com spoke to TIME?s Jerusalem bureau chief, Matt Rees, and to Jamil Hamad, TIME correspondent in Bethlehem, about the increasingly tense situation...
...dead, little remains of the month-old cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians. A surge in violence over the past few days has left several people dead and more wounded, and each side is pointing the finger at the other. TIME correspondent Jamil Hamad discussed the situation Friday from Bethlehem...
...going to achieve any fruitful result. The cease-fire is still violated every day, and some Palestinians are determined to continue firing at Israelis. There is also a growing anti-American feeling on the Palestinian streets. Every day the American flag is burned in Gaza and Ramallah and Bethlehem, and we can expect to see demonstrations against Powell...
...Jamil Hamad (Bethlehem): Secretary of State Powell's mission has certainly been put under a big question mark as a result of the differences between Sharon and Bush. The Israelis are not putting too much expectation on the visit, but the Palestinians may be misreading the differences between Sharon and Bush, falsely believing that these have arisen because Bush has taken the Palestinian interpretation. Sharon will stick to his position, and won't be particularly diplomatic with Powell. He'll insist that that the Palestinians stop all violence for ten days before he'll carry out the next step...