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Suicide bomber families targeted
Jerusalem
21aug01
ISRAEL'S deputy minister for internal security, Gideon Ezra, said yesterday
security forces should "liquidate" the fathers of Palestinian suicide bombers
to discourage further kamikaze attacks.
"The would-be suicide bomber should know that his close relatives risk
paying for his crime or even being liquidated," the hardline member of Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party said on national television.
"Yes, the fathers should be liquidated to prevent the sons perpetrating
suicide operations," said the former high-ranking official of the internal
security service Shin Beth.
"The fathers know perfectly well what their sons are up to and they could
stop them," he said after his interviewer accused him of advocating state
terrorism.
Israel was shocked by two recent suicide bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa which left 17
dead, including the bombers, and more than 100 wounded.
Security forces arrested two members of the hardline Islamic Jihad movement on Friday
as they were heading off to commit another nightclub bombing.
Israel has already run into widespread international criticism for its policy of
killing suspected Palestinian militants it says the Palestinian authorities have
refused to arrest.
The campaign has killed nine members of the radical group Hamas in the past month,
while two members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement were killed by
Israeli forces last week.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council prepared yesterday to discuss ways to end the
Palestinian uprising in the West Bankand Gaza after another day of violence in which
six Palestinians died as top leaders on both sides call
ed for negotiations.
Palestinian sources said six Palestinians were killed yesterday and at least 12 others
injured by Israeli fire in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, though
Israel denied responsibility for one incident in
which a father and his two children died.
As the UN Security Council prepared to consider a Palestinian plea for international
observers, top Israeli and Palestinian leaders called for negotiations to end the
cycle of Middle East violence.
"We want resumption of negotiations unconditionally," chief Palestinian negotiator
Saeb Erekat told ABC's This Week program, urging Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
to take up his offer.
Mr Peres, who appeared on the same program, said the parties should return to the
negotiating table "and air out our differences like between two parties that deal with
the story honourably and rightly".
"I am trying my very best to bring back the parties to a reasonable contact, and, you
know, I don't belong to the people who think that everything is lost," the Israeli
Foreign Minister said.
The meeting of the Security Council was expected to be contentious as both Israel and
the US have expressed scepticism the United Nations was the right venue to resolve the
Middle East crisis.
But the US found itself under increased pressure to undertake new energetic steps to
end the Middle East violence.
"Without the US there will be no solution," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher told
The Washington Post in an interview.
He indicated that if Washington could persuade Israel to halt its strikes
against Palestinian targets and resume the peace talks, Egypt and other
Arab countries could lean on the Palestinians to make them more
accommodating.
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