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Sharon Back to Retaliate While Israeli Troops Attack Jericho
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JERICHO,
May 7 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - While Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon cut his visit to the U.S. and left for Israel early
Wednesday to “retaliate” for the Tel Aviv Rishon Letsion bomb
blast, the Israeli army launched an attack on the village of Al-Uja,
near the West Bank city of Jericho, and rounded up some 300 men in the
village school.
Israeli
soldiers moved into the village and imposed an immediate curfew before
ordering the men into the school run by the UN agency for Palestinian
refugees, UNRWA, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported.
Israeli
troops has also killed a Palestinian man during a short incursion into
a village near the northern West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday,
news agencies reported.
Meanwhile,
Israeli troops in the occupied Shebaa Farms border area, according to
AFP, fire rockets on southern Lebanon Wednesday, as16 rockets
struck the Birket al-Naqqar area, near the village of Kfarshuba,
across the border from the Farms.
Responding
to the Israeli will to remove Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, the
German foreign ministry urged Israel Wednesday to cooperate with
Yasser Arafat as the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people. This
is obviously a call Israel does not intend to listen to, as while on
Board of Sharon’s plane coming from Washington, a senior Israeli
official said Wednesday the United States now shares Israel's belief
that Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority must rebuild itself with
new leadership before starting political talks with the Jewish state,
AFP reported.
On
the Jenin issue, Ann Cloid, a British Parliament member said during a
committee in the British parliament that international reporters that
covered the Jenin camp invasion should testify of what they saw in
front of the House of Commons to clarify the facts Israel denied, the
Palestinian News Agency WAFA reported.
On
the same issue, a Palestinian club, called “Nadi Al-Asir” said
Wednesday in a report it released that the Israeli army have executed
33 Palestinians, including 6 women, during its aggression on Jenin,
WAFA reported.
Meanwhile,
An Arab-sponsored attempt to condemn Israel at an emergency session of
the UN General Assembly faced a setback Tuesday after Aviv Rishon
Letsion bomb blast, AFP reported.
Although
the assembly voted by 74 to four in favor of a draft resolution
condemning Israel's refusal to cooperate with a UN fact-finding
mission into its military assault on the Palestinian refugee camp in
Jenin last month, another 51 countries abstained, many of them
criticizing the failure of the resolution to also condemn suicide
attacks on Israeli civilians.
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