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Israel Arrests Top Arafat Aide


VOA News
15 Apr 2002 15:21 UTC
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Marwan Barghouti
Israel has arrested Marwan Barghouti, a close aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a leader of the current intifada.

 Israeli and Palestinian sources say Mr. Barghouti was captured in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israeli troops have been searching for him since Israel launched its West Bank offensive more than two weeks ago.
 
 

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Burned remains of a Palestinian boy lay amidst toys in a house destroyed by Israeli soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp
Mr. Barghouti is the chief of Mr. Arafat's Fatah movement. Israel accuses him of leading the Fatah militants responsible for many attacks against Israelis.

 Meanwhile, a group of international relief workers, including Palestinian medics, is getting its first look inside the devastated Palestinian refugee camp at Jenin. International Red Cross and Red Crescent workers with ambulances, escorted by Israeli troops, are searching for bodies and giving medical aid to the wounded.

 Palestinians have accused Israeli forces of carrying out a massacre in the camp, saying hundreds of people, including many civilians, have been killed. Israel says the death toll is only in the dozens, and that most of those killed were gunmen.
 
 

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