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...Pulsa Denura" ("Lashes of Fire") curse against Noah Satat, 29, the outspoken director of Jerusalem Open House, organizer of the parade. Several fanatical rabbis say that such curses led to the death of Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who was killed by a Jewish extremist for signing a peace treaty with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and that another malediction caused Ariel Sharon to have a stroke several months after he pulled Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip. Hexes can be laughed off, perhaps, but Satat, who has also received death threats, is now guarded by a 24-hour police escort...
...tank gunner's mathematical goof sent five shells crashing into a row of houses in Beit Hanoun, where dozens of Palestinian families lay sleeping. The shelling killed 19 people, including two women and six children, and wounded another...
...Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...
...Damascus, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal declared on Wednesday that the organization would no longer honor a two-year truce with Israel. Since the cease-fire began two years ago, Hamas has mostly refrained from sending over suicide bombers from the Palestinian territories into Israel, but Hamas sources say that after the Beit Hanoun killings, "all forms of resistance" are now under consideration...
...Enraged Palestinian radicals also want to start targeting the U.S. Meshal called on Muslims around the world, mainly in Egypt and Jordan, which have ties with Tel Aviv, to attack Israeli and U.S. targets. Both Egypt and Jordan have radical underground jihadi groups, some with links to al-Qaeda. In a statement, Hamas claimed: "America is offering political, financial and logistic cover for the Zionist occupation crimes, and it is responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre. Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons." Hamas is split into factions...