Word: qalqilya
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...World Wildlife Fund criticized the proposal, saying it did not go far enough. MIDDLE EAST Israeli Tanks Roll Into Nablus - Again As CIA Director George Tenet left Washington for the Middle East to discuss the prospects for renewed Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, Israeli forces moved back into Nablus and Qalqilya. Among those arrested in the West Bank raids was Issam Abu Bakr, a senior official of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization in Nablus. Troops went from house to house in the Balata refugee camp, a main base of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, responsible for a recent suicide bombing near...
...operations across the West Bank had stretched the Israeli army thin. By March 30, Israeli troops were already occupying Ramallah and Bethlehem. On Monday, April 1, they would go into Tulkarem and Qalqilya. The elite Paratroop Brigade was poised outside Nablus. The 5th Brigade, scheduled for Jenin, was made up of reservists mostly in their late 20s and early 30s, but the brass thought they could handle the tough assignment. "There were indications it was going to be hard," says Major General Dan Harel, the army's operations chief. "But we didn't think it was going...
...Some of Israel's military operations in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Qalqilya and Jenin also appear to have targeted the Palestinian Authority's own security structures - a number of policemen have been reported killed, and hundreds more arrested...
...that Sharon has instructed the army to lift the closure of Tulkarm, Hebron, Bethlehem and Qalqilya, and they're saying they're going to open the borders and allow Palestinians to go back to work in Israel...
...result of the whole program is that the West Bank is changing as quickly as a stage set. Scarcely a month ago, there was nothing but rocks, a few tractors and some foundations at a place called Tzavta, near Qalqilya. When TIME Correspondent David Halevy visited Tzavta again last week, he found a newly built 3½ -mile road, ten cottages nearing completion and another 70 on the way. A makeshift factory was turning out building blocks and iron rods, and four large cranes were busy day and night moving prefabricated materials to the building sites. Here, as elsewhere...