Word: tulkarem
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...Israeli army's push into the West Bank and Gaza was massive but brief; by Saturday Sharon had withdrawn his forces from most of the West Bank. But few terrorist leaders appear to have been caught or killed. In Ramallah and Tulkarem, Israeli soldiers arrested 100 Palestinians who were on their wanted list but not the main militants, who apparently fled as soon as they heard the tanks outside their refugee camps. An Israeli raid on the sprawling camp in Jabalya turned up at least 10 workshops manufacturing Kassam II rockets, which Hamas has used against Israeli soldiers and civilians...
...devastating spasm of suicide bombings at the start of the month, the Israelis, as usual, gave Arafat a list of suspects to arrest. His forces picked up a handful, but none was a big fish. One who got away, a Hamas leader from the village of a-Til near Tulkarem, was therefore free to send the Emmanuel attackers on their mission, according to Israeli intelligence...
...Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub agreed to keep order in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood in return for Israel's pulling out troops and tanks. Last week--just days before Israelis killed a leading Hamas military leader suspected of terrorism--Ben-Eliezer oversaw similar deals in the Palestinian cities of Tulkarem and Kalkilya...
...that the violence is on both sides, and the violence is making every side angry. Hamas issued a statement in which they accused Israel of shooting their man in Tulkarem, and they're threatening revenge. And the Israeli settlers are also angry - in Hebron they are taking the law into their own hands, attacking Arabs and their property. Today the Israeli police clashed with Israeli settlers and five police were wounded because the police were trying to keep them away from the Arabs...
...Tulkarem Mideast peace talks were suspended for one day after two Israelis were killed, execution-style, by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. The men had gone to Tulkarem with an Arab friend to buy pottery there; police first detained and then released the friend, who is an Israeli citizen, after deciding that he had not been part of a plan to lure the men to their deaths. By week?s end, the talks had started again, despite the killing of another Israeli on the edge of Jerusalem Thursday night...