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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Israeli Troops Storm West Bank Town Email this Story 02/12/2002 6:14 AM EST By STEVE WEIZMAN JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops raided a West Bank town early Tuesday, killing a Palestinian gunman in an exchange of fire and destroying a house before withdrawing five hours later. Israeli media, meanwhile, reported that the military is preparing for a large-scale ground assault on Palestinian territory in the event of renewed firing of Qassam-2 rockets at Israel by the Islamic militant group Hamas. Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Palestinian militants raised the stakes in the Mideast conflict by firing the new, longer-range rockets into Israel. In Tuesday's raid, an Israeli infantry unit went into the Palestinian-controlled northern outskirts of Hebron and arrested a wanted gunman from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, the Israeli military said. During the operation, there were exchanges of fire with the Palestinians. At one point, troops spotted an armed man fleeing a building and shot him dead, the military said in a statement. Palestinian security officials said the dead man was a member of the Palestinian National Guard. Israeli army bulldozers also destroyed a house, leaving a Fatah member, his wife and four children homeless. A second building was damaged, with the wall on the first floor smashed in and closets and furniture visible from the street. In a separate raid in the same area, soldiers arrested an alleged member of the militant Islamic Jihad organization, the army said. The Hebron-area raid followed airstrikes on Gaza City on Sunday and Monday in retaliation for the firing of a pair of Qassam-2 rockets at southern Israel. The daily Maariv reported Tuesday that Ben-Eliezer and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are considering establishing a so-called "security zone" in Gaza, a stretch of land reoccupied by Israel, to move the rockets out of range. Establishing such a zone in the West Bank would be more difficult because it would require reoccupying Palestinian towns close to Israel, such as Tulkarem and Qalqiliya, Maariv quoted security officials as saying. Sunday's rockets ploughed large craters in two farm fields. The Qassam-2 has a range of three to five miles, enough to hit Israeli towns from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the past, Hamas has fired several shorter-range Qassam-1 rockets that caused no damage. Ben-Eliezer said the rocket attacks represented "a new level of threat." "You try to deal with it in all sorts of ways - by intelligence, by prevention and by struggling against those places where you suspect and discover that there are factories or workshops for manufacturing those rockets," Ben-Eliezer said. In Monday's Israeli airstrike, warplanes fired six missiles into the walled Saraya security compound in downtown Gaza City, setting buildings ablaze and sending black smoke into the sky. More than 30 people were injured, most of them lightly, including George Kochaniec, a photographer for Denver's Rocky Mountain News. Kochaniec was treated for a hand injury. Hundreds of Palestinians ran to the stricken compound, demanding that suspected Islamic militants jailed there be released immediately. Some threw stones at officers, who fired in the air to keep back the crowd. Palestinian police said all detainees were moved to another prison shortly after the Israeli attack. In Washington, State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher criticized Israel's bombing in populated areas, warning that they could intensify the fighting. He also called on Arafat to make efforts to stop the rocket attacks. Israel warplanes blasted a separate Gaza City security compound Sunday night near Arafat's offices. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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