-Caveat Lector- on 3/9/02 3:22 PM, Jei at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: Rima Anabtawi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:49 AM > To: Al-Awda-News > Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Unending carnage > > Al-Ahram Weekly Online > 7 - 13 March 2002 > http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/re62.htm Funny that article only details half the killing of innocents that went on Try this: http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/09/mideast.airstrikes/index.html Gunmen shoot into crowd in Israeli city of Netanya March 9, 2002 Posted: 2021 GMT An injured man is loaded into an ambulance in Netanya. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Three suspected Palestinian gunmen were killed after shooting at least 35 people in the northern Israeli coastal city of Netanya, Israeli police said Saturday. The gunmen shot indiscriminately in all directions in an area of hotels and restaurants adjacent to a pedestrian walkway along the Mediterranean Sea in the city, located about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south-southwest of Haifa and close to the West Bank, according to CNN's Michael Holmes. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant wing of the Fatah movement -- which is closedly aligned with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat -- claimed responsibility for the attacks. Israeli ambulance workers said five of the people were seriously wounded. The shootings occurred at the end of the Jewish Sabbath, as people went outside for the evening to socialize. Meanwhile, Palestinians security sources said Israeli helicopters attacked targets in Gaza, aimed either at the headquarters of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat or a nearby police station. Earlier Saturday, Israeli forces said they found 10 Qassam-2 rockets and an explosives lab in a Palestinian refugee camp on the West Bank on Saturday, while Palestinian security forces said they arrested a fourth man in connection with the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. The Palestinian Authority had no immediate comment on the Israel Defense Force's reported discovery at a refugee camp near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. Israeli officials have said the Qassam-2 missile, which has been fired periodically at Israeli targets since February, enables militant groups to strike deeper into Israeli territory than ever before. Israeli forces moved into the Tulkarem refugee camp Saturday in armored personnel carriers and rounded up about 500 mean and boys for questioning at a school for Palestinian refugees run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, CNN's Ben Wedeman reported. An Israeli soldier was killed in Tulkarem on Friday, the Israeli army said. Palestinian security forces arrested a fourth man in connection with last October's assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, the Palestinian Authority said Saturday, as Israel continued its actions against Palestinian targets. In the midst of the violence, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Friday he was willing to negotiate a cease-fire even as violence in the region rages. This represents a major shift from his previous demand for a seven-day period of calm before any such talks could begin. Sources at the Palestinian Authority identified the arrested man as Majdi al-Rimawi, a member of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which claimed responsibility for Zeevi's death. The PFLP is a Palestinian militant group that has committed numerous international terrorist attacks and has conducted attacks against Israeli or moderate Arab targets, according to the U.S. State Department. Palestinian Authority sources also said al-Rimawi was the last suspect to be arrested under the conditions set up by Israel to lift its restrictions on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat has been restricted, blockaded by Israeli tanks, to Ramallah in the West Bank -- where his headquarters are -- for three months. Israel has said in the past, however, that suspects must be arrested and face trial to meet conditions. Israel had no immediate response, but officials there in the past have said they would reassess the situation as reports of Palestinian actions are confirmed. Israeli forces on Saturday continued airstrikes and incursions against Palestinian targets. Also, a 15-year-old Palestinian girl died from a gunshot wound to the head in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Saturday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. Palestinian sources said that Israeli troops that were surrounding the Dheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem had moved into that camp, calling to residents to stay in their homes. The Israel Defense Force denied the report that troops had entered the camp, but acknowledged surrounding it. The Israeli security forces said that Israeli forces had surrounded the Bethlehem camp and had exchanged fire with gunmen in the Bethlehem area, but denied entering it. They said they were checking the report of the girl's death. Violence between Israel and the Palestinians has escalated sharply in recent days since the current conflict began nearly 18 months ago. More than 100 Israelis and Palestinians, including numerous children, have died in the past week. Israel escalated its operations after a terror attack in a crowded Jerusalem neighborhood killed nine and sniper attacks on military checkpoints last weekend. Friday was the bloodiest day in the current uprising, with more than 55 reported dead -- five teen-aged Israeli students killed in a terror attack in Gaza and one Israeli soldier killed in Tulkarem, and 48 Palestinians killed in subsequent strikes. Two Palestinian militants carrying out terror attacks also died. The Israeli numbers come from Israeli army sources and the Palestinian numbers come from Palestinian hospital and security sources. (Full story) Sharon's cease-fire comments come as U.S. Mideast envoy Anthony Zinni prepares to head for the region. (Full story) The administration's decision to send Zinni was a major policy shift for the administration, which had previously said there was no point in sending him to the region until the violence had subsided. -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - ----- -- --- -- - - - ---- - -- - - - -- ---- -- - -- - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. 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