Word: nablus
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...MIDDLE EAST Deadly Impasse As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with President George W. Bush in Washington, fighting continued unabated back home. A day after a Palestinian killed three people in Hamra, a Jewish settlement on the West Bank, Israel retaliated with air strikes on Palestinian Authority headquarters in Nablus. The army also launched incursions into the West Bank to hunt down suspected militants...
...although their warheads exploded harmlessly in an open field, the political shock waves are still being felt throughout Israel. The Israeli Defense Force responded with three heavy air raids over 24 hours on Palestinian security targets in Gaza City, and sent its tanks back into the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank. And that, in turn, prompted a crowd of 300 militant supporters to storm the Palestinian Authority prison in Hebron late Monday, freeing 10 Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders...
...East right now is that more people on both sides are slated to die in the coming weeks. Forty-six people were wounded by a Palestinian gunman on a shooting rampage in Jerusalem, Tuesday, only hours after Israeli forces killed four Hamas activists in the West Bank town of Nablus. Israeli forces had entered Nablus and also Tulkarm in response to last Thursday's attack on a Bat Mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera, where a Palestinian gunman shot dead six revelers. The terrorists, in both instances, were sent not by Hamas, but by the Al Aqsa Martyr...
...Then came the Karine A weapons shipment, which Israel claims proved Arafat malafides as a peace partner. And then the Karni assassination, which prompted the grassroots structures of Arafat's own organization to void his cease-fire. Hamas on Tuesday promised an "all-out war" in retaliation for the Nablus killings, and Israel's military intelligence chief warned legislators to expect even harsher terror strikes in the coming weeks as vengeance now tops the priorities of the Islamist group...
...Jihad announced a halt to their suicide-bombing campaigns in Israel. The move is designed to defuse tension within the Palestinian community, which has been split by leader Yasser Arafat's moves to crack down on militant activity. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks reclaimed positions in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Ramallah, just hours after pulling out. The Palestinian Authority said that the action undermined its own attempts to maintain order...