Word: salah
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Even before he was killed by an Israeli missile things had not been going well for Hamas military commander Salah Shehade. His movement's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, had begun publicly discussing a halt to attacks on Israelis in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank towns, an end to assassinations and the release of prisoners. The idea of halting "martyrdom" operations was anathema to Shehade and other hard-liners in Gaza and the West Bank, and they were faced with making the case that their aims could only be achieved through violence. But any emerging debate...
...Gaza, the political calculations are different. Once again, those advocating political solutions are likely to find themselves eclipsed by the bombers. Their erstwhile leader Salah Shehade may lie dead and cold in the ground, but for now he's won the Palestinian political debate...
...Salah Shehade, the leader of the military wing of Hamas, was the target of an Israeli missile fired from an F-16 fighter into a Gaza City apartment building early Tuesday. Accusing Shehade of orchestrating dozens of terror attacks on Israeli civilians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the air strike one of the greatest successes of his tenure despite the regretful loss of innocent lives...
...meal a day was served, at about 2 p.m. One of the civilians appointed himself cook. He had few ingredients to work with: rice, pasta and lentils. When Israeli soldiers brought in additional food for the clerics, they shared it with everyone inside. "They ate what we ate," Salah says, "and in equal portions." Eventually, the monks began stripping the leaves from lemon trees in the courtyard. "We'd make soup out of that, with salt," says Salah. Ja'ara and his comrades chopped up lemon rinds and fried them. "It was enough to make you sick for two weeks...
...were charged there. The only toilets were on the second floor of the compound; they were soon foul because they couldn't be flushed once the Israelis cut off the water. "To get to the bathroom, we had to run though an open space within sight of the snipers," Salah says. "Sometimes they shot at us. So we only went once a day." The only water was in three old wells in the compound. It was impure, and many in the church developed diarrhea. Dashing out to the wells was dangerous; six Palestinians were hit by Israeli snipers as they...