Word: hebron
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...Hebron celebrated the first day of 1997 with Noam Friedman, an Israeli soldier, emptying his assault rifle at a crowd of Palestinian civilians, wounding nine people. Fortunately, no deaths occurred as fellow Israeli soldiers restrained Friedman while he was reloading his rifle for another round. The shooting, which strongly resonates with Baruch Goldstein's Ibrahimi mosque massacre of 29 Palestinians, vividly illustrates the vulnerability of the Palestinian civilians in Hebron. The attack comes against a backdrop of the growing influence of Jewish fanatics and ultranationalists in the Israeli body-politic. The Jewish settlers community in the West Bank...
...Jewish world was outraged and saddened by the recent violence in the town of Hebron, in which an Israeli soldier opened fire on shoppers at the Palestinian market. We wish a complete and speedy recovery to all those injured in the attack...
...attacker intended to sabotage efforts by Israeli and Palestinian officials to resolve disagreements about the control of Hebron. We have faith that this most recent terrorist act will not delay conclusion of these negotiations. And we hope and pray that Israelis and Palestinians will build on these agreements and make the dream of peace a reality, speedily and in our time. --David Andorsky '97, chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Adam Kleinbaum '98, chair-elect, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Yuval Segal '97, co-chair, Harvard Students for Israel
JERUSALEM: Even as he is embroiled in painstaking negotiations over the Hebron agreement, Benjamin Netanyahu now may face eroding support at home. Israel radio reported Friday that two Israeli cabinet ministers of the religious Shas Party who initially supported the agreement now were considering abstaining or voting no. And Thursday night, one of Netanyahu's strongest supporters, Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, said that he too would vote against a Hebron deal if Netanyahu commits to a new timetable for a troop withdrawal from West Bank rural areas. The defection of all three would prevent an agreement from taking effect...
JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...