Word: tulkarem
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ABBAS: It was individuals. We arrested five. If you ask me who is responsible, the Israelis are responsible. The bombers came from the suburb of Tulkarem to Tel Aviv, crossing the wall. So who is responsible? The wall and the Israelis...
...only made it more depressing. A Palestinian suicide bomber shattered the region?s three-month period of calm Friday night by killing four Israelis and injuring 50 outside a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, a 21-year-old student from a village near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was the first since the November death of Yasser Arafat; he hoped to destroy the tenuous trust that took root at a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. To keep him from succeeding, Palestinian security forces - which in the last four years have done little or nothing to apprehend those...
...some of his professors, Sarafa, a first-year in Pennypacker Hall, isn’t one to shrink from debate or dialogue. Although he hails from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., he says he feels inextricably linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His mother is from the West Bank town of Tulkarem, and he still has relatives living under Israeli occupation...
...Gaza, where a Palestinian teen died in a gun battle after the Israeli army raided the town of Beit Hanoun. Troops also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said the shops had been built without permits; Palestinians accused Israel of destroying their economy to suppress the intifadeh...
...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...