Word: nablus
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...stolen Volkswagen truck roared along the chaotic main street of Nablus. As Kamel Salameh wove the VW through the morning rush-hour traffic, he slammed into nine-year-old Islam Atallah. She spun off the hood like a doll, dead. With screaming tires, Salameh turned his truck and sped off. He headed for Balata refugee camp at the edge of Nablus. The patrolmen chasing him were nervous. The camp is a no-go area for Yasser Arafat's police. Salameh swerved into Balata's narrow streets and disappeared. Soon after, the police found the truck abandoned, but Salameh had melted...
...lawmen's incursion. Forty stolen cars rolled slowly out of the camp, each loaded with car thieves firing rifles in the air. Behind them walked hundreds of Balata residents. The criminals drowned the police station and the municipality in the deafening racket of their Kalashnikovs. The people of Nablus fled in fear, and their rulers--the mayor appointed by Arafat, the police chief, the Governor--all got the message: Back off. "Every day there's a fight between someone from Balata and a Nablus guy," says Hussam Khader, 39, the reform-minded leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party...
...Jamil Hamad:You can still feel a great deal of tension. There were clashes today between settlers and the Palestinian population near Nablus and in Hebron. And shooting incidents have continued despite the cease fire declared by Yasser Arafat. In this situation, European and American efforts to confirm the cease fire agreements are threatened by many land mines. The cease fire on the Palestinian side was not an outcome of national consensus or consultation, so there is a feeling among Palestinians that this cease fire was a response by Arafat to international pressure and Israeli threats - the cease fire agreement...
...honor his pledges to step aside. Despite Barak's departure, Sharon said he still hopes to form a coalition government with Labor. Meanwhile Israeli security forces stepped up their liquidation of Palestinian extremists: in the latest assassination, a Hamas activist was gunned down near the West Bank city of Nablus...
With Adil Salman's sons, the tanks made no mistake. Salman picks through the destruction of the old stone house near Nablus where his sons Nahid and Sami died last month. Adil is 67. He stoops shakily to pick through the rubble around the shallow indentation in the ground, a yard across, where the tank shell landed. Rearranging his white kaffiyeh with one hand, he reaches out for a piece of silvery metal. It is a foot long with 10 parallel grooves near one end, part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen...