Word: yasser
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...against militant Muslim groups. One new idea: a $230 million electric fence to separate Israel from the West Bank's 1.2 million Palestinians. On the West Bank today, Israeli troops rounded up dozens of Muslim activists, ransacked a mosque and welded shut the doors of extremists' headquarters. PLO leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, blamed the Muslim groups for his failure to deliver peace with Israel in the territories, saying "those who broke the ceasefire now wanted nothing but to kill the Palestinian dream...
Meeting in Gaza City with Secretary of State Warren Christopher, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat promised to act against Palestinian extremists bent on derailing the peace process. Arafat essentially acknowledged that security concerns would have to be addressed before Israel could begin withdrawing its troops from the occupied West Bank. Since the peace agreement was signed 14 months ago, 96 Israelis have died in terrorist attacks...
...militant Islamic group Hamas issued new threats against Israeli targets today as reconciliation talks collapsed with the Palestinian self-rule government headed by Yasser Arafat. The talks, whose importance an Arafat spokesman minimized today, began after PLO police opened fire on Hamas activists in Gaza Nov. 18, killing 15 people. The talks' failure was another setback in Arafat's efforts to gain a grip on Palestinians who oppose the Israeli peace accord. The threats -- made during a Gaza City rally today where 10,000 Hamas supporters gathered to commemorate the group's 1987 founding -- put security forces throughout Israel...
...group of 22 countries and three international aid organizations agreed to accelerate delivery of funds to Yasser Arafat and his Gaza-based Palestinian Authority. Donors agreed to provide $125 million through next March to cover Arafat's budget deficit, plus $23 million to create jobs. Meanwhile, Israel transferred the responsibilities for taxation and health services in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority in preparation for wider self-rule there...
Israeli officials, worried that recent terrorist acts and protests have fatally weakened PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's grip on his people, began a major, three-day policy debate over whether they can pull their troops from the West Bank before Palestinian elections -- a key part of the historic 1993 Mideast peace accord. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that Israel had "no interest in dragging things out" but effectively no-commented on whether Israel would try to leave some troops in Palestinian areas after the elections, most likely this month. Arafat today instructed the negotiators who'll represent him when...