Word: ramallah
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...light has fallen on the mystery surrounding the death of MUHI A DIN SHARIF, the Hamas bombmaker whose body was found naked outside an explosives lab in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on March 29 (TIME, April 13). The Palestinian Authority maintains Sharif was shot and then blown up in an inside job; two Hamas men remain in a Palestinian jail accused of the crime. Other Palestinians blamed Israel. But after Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian officials to turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif's chest, new weight has been given to a different theory...
...light has fallen on the mystery surrounding the death of Muhi A Din Sharif, the Hamas bombmaker whose body was found naked outside an explosives lab in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on March 29. The Palestinian Authority maintains Sharif was shot and then blown up in an inside job; two Hamas men remain in a Palestinian jail accused of the crime. Other Palestinians blamed Israel. But after Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian officials to turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif?s chest, new weight has been given to a different theory. Israeli forensics experts...
...RAMALLAH: The only certainty about the death of Hamas leader Mohiyedine Sharif is that his followers will wreak an ugly vengeance on Israeli civilians, says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Sharif was found dead after a bomb explosion this weekend, but an autopsy discovered that he'd been killed earlier by bullet wounds. "Hamas is accusing Israel and the Palestinian Authority; the Palestinian Authority is blaming Israel; Israel is blaming Palestinians," says Hamad...
...RAMALLAH, West Bank: Four days of Middle East shuttling by special envoy Dennis Ross has left Yasser Arafat emptyhanded - and spitting mad. All Ross was able to extract from Netanyahu was today's lifting of another travel ban. Says TIME's State Department correspondent Dean Fischer: "It's not much of a concession...
...What really hurts, of course, is the $40 million in monthly tax revenues withheld by Israel, leaving the better part of the Palestinian Authority working pro bono. A defiant Arafat said exactly that on Thursday in a speech to some Israeli Arabs in Ramallah. "You have 220,000 Palestinians who are not able to bring food to their families...