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...turned their weapons on the Israelis, prompting, for the first time, a head-on clash between the two armies. By week's end, when hostilities had calmed to a simmer, 59 Palestinians and 14 Israelis had been killed and nearly a thousand others injured throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Not since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had the territories seen such carnage...
...economic growth is impeded by Israeli restrictions. Lengthy security checks mean few Palestinian goods reach the Israeli market, even as Israeli products flow freely through the crossing points. Palestinian trade with Jordan and Egypt is restricted, also for security reasons, as is commerce between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Thus not only is the Palestinian economy closed...
...officers on both sides had been one of the glowing achievements of the peace process. Now that was all in peril. "They were shooting at us like we never made peace, like they never sat with us, like we never laughed together," lamented a young officer in the Gaza Strip. One of the wounded soldiers Netanyahu visited in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital told the Prime Minister he recognized the man who shot him from a joint patrol they had conducted in the past. Said an Israeli commander serving in the West Bank: "What we built together is collapsing...
Catherine Briggs, a Sudbury resident and health professional who has worked in the Gaza Strip, said one of the reasons she was at the vigil was in response to the violence...
...accuracy of reporting is always necessary. But in the case of the Middle East in general, and of Israel in particular, the opposite can have explosive consequences. Immediately after Israel opened another entrance to a pre-existing archaelogical site in Jerusalem, the word spread throughout the West Bank and Gaza that Israel was digging under Islamic holy sites in a blatant gesture of hostility towards Israel's Muslim residents. The rumor was a lie, but it nonetheless had a quick and deadly effect. For three days, Palestinian mobs armed with automatic weapons, stones and bottles terrorized Israeli towns and army...