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...ground-floor wall or catching a bullet on an upper floor, Yasser Arafat spent much of last Friday and Saturday on the second floor of his Ramallah refuge telephoning Arab and European leaders to ask for support and fuming at the latest Israeli incursion into his West Bank compound. With his oldest enemies once again closing in around him and allies questioning whether they should continue to support him, Arafat was assailed from above and below...
...small section of Arafat's office building and planted Israel's flag after removing that of Palestine. Over loudspeakers, the Israelis demanded that a small group of what they claimed were terrorists vacate the building, even as their army continued to demolish what was left of the compound and hundreds of Palestinians began massing in the streets of Ramallah to protest Israel's tightening siege...
...Israelis see it--to rein in militants. At 6:30 p.m. Sharon convened a meeting of his Cabinet and announced a plan to isolate his old enemy but not exile or kill him. As the meeting broke up, Israel Defense Forces tanks were already moving on Arafat's compound...
...ringed with machine-gun emplacements. With today's heightened dangers, it is now hedged by tanks and more than 3.5-m concrete barriers. On Nov. 20, 2000, the Cohen children boarded their bus to the nearest school, in a settlement two miles away. The bus had barely left the compound when Cohen heard a thunderous boom. He rushed to the scene. By the time soldiers allowed him through, an ambulance had taken away three of his children. Inside the bus, Cohen saw the corpses of two adults. With that image in his mind, he drove fast to find his children...
...south. U.S. special forces in C-130 cargo planes had arrived hours earlier to evacuate the children and other Westerners to neighboring Ghana. MIDDLE EAST Siege of Ramallah Israel defied U.S. criticism and a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate end to its siege of Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah. Israeli officials insisted that Arafat first had to hand over 50 alleged militants holed up with him in his half-ruined office building. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the men with Arafat were "the biggest terrorists that exist." Meanwhile, at least 18 Palestinians (including a 14-month...