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Some of the members of Arafat's own security forces were demoralized by their comrades' actions. Said a long-faced soldier at a checkpoint in Gaza City: "Today we proved to all the Palestinians that what Hamas says about us is true: that we are an instrument in the hands of the Israelis." Eyewitnesses at the Palestine Mosque told of a police major who, upon seeing his colleagues open fire, tore off his cap and jacket and cried to the crowd, "I am not one of them...
...current environment in the Gaza Strip has strengthened the appeal of the militants. Palestinians have little, if anything, to show for the achievement of self-rule. The Gazan economy is in ruins. Foreign aid donors refuse to hand over significant funds until Arafat creates a credible system of accounting for the money. Israel, in response to the violence, has limited the number of workers allowed to cross the border daily for work. Just days before the Gaza riots, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned that the Gaza Strip would become "a new, tougher Afghanistan" unless economic conditions improved immediately...
...worth it, that it makes more sense to say to the people, 'All right, go back to the Israeli occupation.' " An aide to Arafat relates that in a recent conversation, the P.L.O. leader himself talked of the possibility of dismantling his self-rule administration and quitting Gaza as a way of wriggling out of the troubled peace accord. The Israelis, however, have no intention of reclaiming control of the Gaza Strip -- which means the Palestinians will have to find some way to govern themselves, short of killing off their rivals...
Palestinian security forces opened fire on Islamic militants at a Gaza City mosque, setting off violent street fighting that shook Yasser Arafat's fragile government. The clashes, in which 15 people were killed and some 200 were wounded, broke out after police and soldiers turned up in force at the mosque in an attempt to prevent members of the fundamentalist group Hamas and Islamic Jihad from marching to protest the arrest of some 200 fellow activists detained after a suicide bomber had killed three Israeli soldiers earlier this month...
MIDDLE EAST: Gaza Flares...