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...signing an agreement that would provide protection for the 80,000 Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron. A "temporary international presence" made up of 160 observers from Norway, Denmark and Italy will enter the Hebron area by mid-April. Earlier in the week in Gaza, Israeli undercover agents disguised as Palestinians killed six members of the Fatah wing of the P.L.O. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres called the killings "very regrettable...
Army commanders said they never issued directives covering a case like Goldstein's because they never imagined a Jew would commit such a crime. But for months, the entire country watched fanatical settlers publicly threaten violence to sabotage the promised onset of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Officers of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, told the commission that they had warned the military numerous times that radical settlers were likely to commit extreme acts...
Jerusalem -- At Israeli army headquarters in the Gaza Strip, workers are painting walls and fixing things up. It's not because they plan to stay -- they're making repairs for the P.L.O. to take over after they leave, which could happen soon. To show goodwill, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered troops to turn over facilities in pristine condition...
...misfortune to receive the worst assignment in the Israeli Defense Forces. The principle duty of the "Chermesh" division entails patrolling the occupied territories. Even patrolling the "Security Zone's in Southern Lebanon for terrorists is considered better--at least there one's enemies are clear. In the Gaza Strip, however, the little boy who you just saw playing soccer might throw rocks at you when your back is turned...
...moves denounced by the P.L.O. as merely "cosmetic," Israel vowed to crack down on extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied territories (but arrested only a handful) and released nearly 1,000 Palestinian detainees. Meanwhile, during rioting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the Hebron mosque massacre, Israeli soldiers killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded dozens of others...