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Last Saturday, Palestinians dressed as Israeli soldiers infiltrated a settlement and killed four people, including a five-year-old girl. In response, on Monday Israeli soldiers dressed as Palestinian civilians infiltrated Hebron and opened fire on Palestinian police. Though the fighting in Israel has diminished in recent days, the war goes on. The Staff would continue to play the politics of brinkmanship; we would prefer small but significant steps toward peace...
...HEBRON The Islamic Principal FATHIYEH QAWASMEH, 39/six children
...Nativity in Bethlehem, said to be the site of Jesus' birth, Israeli soldiers laid siege for four days, peppering the 1,500-year-old building with bullets and, according to those trapped inside, blowing off the rear door. Elsewhere Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank towns of Hebron, Nablus and Jenin and continued to confine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his compound in Ramallah. As the fighting worsened President George W. Bush, the United Nations and European Union leaders called on Israel to end its retaliation for a suicide attack that killed 26 people at a Passover celebration...
...Incensed by the escape from a PA prison in Hebron of 17 Hamas and Islamic Jihad detainees the previous day, Arafat reportedly lost his temper during a meeting in his Ramallah office, slapping his security chief Jibril Rajoub. More colorful accounts even had Arafat drawing a gun, prompting both men's bodyguards to do the same. PA insiders dispute reports that Arafat pulled out a firearm, but confirmed that the aging Palestinian leader had indeed slapped Rajoub. PA leaders were hard at work Thursday reconciling...
...Arafat was understandably livid that Rajoub's men failed to stand up to a crowd that had stormed the Hebron prison seeking the release of Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners. After all, he faces unrelenting pressure from Israel and the U.S. to do more to crack down on terrorism, and pays a political price for any perceived failure. Further, he believes the situation is deteriorating because of what he sees as negligence on the part of his security apparatus. Three months ago, Arafat reportedly unleashed a similar (though not physical) tirade against his Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan...