Word: ramallah
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...explosions that killed two Israeli teenagers and a shooting that killed a 10-month-old child. The air strikes destroyed the headquarters of Yasser Arafat's Force 17 élite guard, killing two people and wounding at least 60. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the bombardment of Gaza and Ramallah was a warning to Yasser Arafat to discipline his militant supporters, but the Palestinian leader said the uprising would continue "until the Palestinian flag is raised on the walls, churches and mosques of holy Jerusalem." Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in subsequent clashes in the Gaza Strip...
...Israeli intelligence officers looked up from their maps when they heard the reverberations from the choppers last Wednesday night. From their base on a hill at the southern edge of Ramallah, they saw the lights in the city go out. The choppers were close now, flying without lights. The officers were excited, anticipating what was coming. Then one of them noticed a point of light. It was the tail of an air-to-ground missile launched...
...both sides may be weighing some form of deal, right now. Besides Wednesday's meetings, Sharon's son and closest adviser, Omri, was reported to have held a secret meeting with Palestinian leaders in Ramallah earlier in the week. But the violent chain of events of the past week may have generated a momentum of its own, leaving any cease-fire vulnerable. After everything that has transpired over the past six months, it's unlikely that these two sides right now could cement a truce capable of surviving a brace of suicide bombings - and the suicide bombers would...
...Wilentz's first novel, Martyrs' Crossing (Simon & Schuster; 311 pages; $24), seem transcribed from this morning's Middle East bulletins. In response to terrorist bombings in Jerusalem, Israel has barred West Bank Palestinians from entering the city. One rainy evening Marina Hajimi approaches the Shuhada checkpoint on the Ramallah road with her young son Ibrahim. He is suffering an asthma attack, and his Palestinian doctor has told her to get him quickly to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The Israeli army lieutenant in charge, Ari Doron, sees that the boy is in bad shape and frantically telephones higher-ups for permission...
...other side, Raad resents the attempt to turn Ibrahim into a political weapon. At a rally staged in Ramallah by the Palestinian Authority, he speaks harsh words to his hosts and the crowd: "If you want to find someone to blame for my grandson's death, look further than the soldier who was at the checkpoint that night, look in the mirror, as well. Look at yourself and the Authority, who've negotiated our birthright...