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...West Bank marked a new escalation in the conflict. Palestinian officials condemned the killings as well, but neither side offered a way out of the spiral of death. The widening violence also saw two Romanian migrant workers killed by a bomb while repairing Israel's border fence with Gaza. By week's end, the Israeli army had launched seven incursions into Palestinian-held territory, including a missile attack on a car in the West Bank that killed a policeman and an activist in Yasser Arafat's Fateh movement. An assault on Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City also injured...
...stoning deaths were not the only awful landmarks of the week, in a struggle where an outrage by one side is followed by an outrage from the other. In Gaza, a four-month-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli tank shell became the youngest victim of the violence. Two Romanian immigrant workers mending a security fence at the Gaza border were blown up by Palestinians. Settlers stoned Palestinians on the roads through Gush Etzion...
...among the radical groups from cells established in Palestinian areas by the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, which creates pressure on Hamas to escalate its deadly activities. And all of the radical groups, who believe armed struggle is the only way to drive Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza, share an interest in sabotaging renewed efforts to forge a cease-fire...
...seen Arafat's security forces unwilling to act against Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militant groups they had previously policed - indeed, the rank and file of Arafat's own Fatah organization tends to see the Islamists as brothers in arms, and has been coordinating activities on the ground in Gaza with those groups. And while suicide bombings inside Israel are the signature modus operandi of the Islamist groups, Fatah militants and members of Arafat's security forces also have been engaged in shooting and mortar attacks in Gaza and the West Bank...
...appeared to be intensifying on the eve of the latest attack, with the Palestinian Authority endorsing the recommendations of the report by former Senator George Mitchell on the causes of violence and Israel moving towards a compromise on the vexed question of settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza. The current cease-fire proposals in both the Mitchell report and an initiative from Egypt and Jordan both require a freeze on construction of Israeli settlements as a prelude to talks. While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, longtime champion of the settlement movement, rejects the idea of acceding to a settlement...