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With a hidden bomb in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, the Israeli military kills Fatah terrorist leader Raed al Karmi...
...both sides are slated to die in the coming weeks. Forty-six people were wounded by a Palestinian gunman on a shooting rampage in Jerusalem, Tuesday, only hours after Israeli forces killed four Hamas activists in the West Bank town of Nablus. Israeli forces had entered Nablus and also Tulkarm in response to last Thursday's attack on a Bat Mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera, where a Palestinian gunman shot dead six revelers. The terrorists, in both instances, were sent not by Hamas, but by the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - an armed group linked with Yasser...
...enough, Fatah's Al Aqsa brigades claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage at Hadera, saying the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Karmi. Israel blamed the attack directly on Arafat, and the response was swift - Israeli F-16s destroyed Palestinian Authority security headquarters in the town of Tulkarm, in what may only be the first installment of what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised would be "a lesson the Palestinian Authority will never forget...
...children are even present at such clashes, often during school hours. The mother of one injured Palestinian boy revealed what ABC would not: "When school finishes, Palestinian Authority security cars go around collecting children from the streets and sending them to the killing fields." Meanwhile, a Palestinian group, the Tulkarm Women's Union, has braved condemnation for treachery and violent reprisals by its frank words in a letter to Yasser Arafat: "We urge you to issue instructions to your police force to stop sending innocent children to their death." Yet somehow ABC considered this side of the story irrelevant...
...rock-throwing youths standing among the Palestinian snipers. Arab leaders indignantly denied the suggestion that the teenagers had been deliberately placed in harm's way to gain sympathy points on the nightly news. However, their protests were muffled when USA Today reported on December 8 that Palestinian women from Tulkarm were outraged that their children were being picked up after school and brought into battle zones, and had written a protest letter to Arafat demanding that the Palestinian Authority "stop using our children as cannon fodder...