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...meet a PA delegation on Thursday to discuss security, political reform and the humanitarian crisis in Palestinian territories. And while the delegation does not include PA leader Yasser Arafat, it consists of officials appointed and mandated by him. "Where do you think I come from, from Mars?" delegate Saeb Erekat told journalists in Washington, Wednesday. "I am part of President Arafat's leadership...
...rally for more violence, raising paint-dipped hands." Instead, our caption should have more precisely explained the situation shown in the photograph: "Israeli right-wing student activists hold up their hands, painted in red as a symbol of bloodshed, at a demonstration supporting the cancellation of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat's lecture at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...
...bodies to be found. Yet residents reported that dozens of corpses had been left in the streets for days, and later they directed reporters to what they said was a mass grave. "They want to hide their crimes, the bodies of the little children and women," Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat told the Associated Press. On Friday the Israeli Supreme Court barred the army from carrying out a plan to bury some of the camp's dead Palestinians until a hearing into the deaths could take place two days later...
...arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists. In Gaza's Zeitoun neighborhood, police put Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin under house arrest and then had to deal with two days of riots. One young Hamas supporter died from a wound sustained in a clash with Palestinian police. Says Saeb Erakat, Arafat's chief peace negotiator: "Sharon is tying Arafat's hands and legs and blindfolding him. Then he's pushing him into the sea and telling the whole world, 'Look, he can't swim, so he's not a partner...
...Three days before the intifadeh, he warned Barak personally that he would not be able to prevent the mayhem if Sharon went ahead with his visit to the Haram. "Please stop Sharon," Arafat pleaded during a dinner, according to an aide who was present. He instructed his chief negotiator, Saeb Erakat, to bring it up with Israeli negotiators and U.S. mediator Dennis Ross the next day. Says Erakat: "I told Dennis, 'This is our worst nightmare, for you, for us and for Barak. Do something about it.' He said, 'I'll see what...