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Israeli Officials Say War Against Terror Not Over


VOA News
27 Apr 2002 21:29 UTC
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<b>Israeli ambulance prepares to evacuate person wounded in Palestinian attack on settlement</b>
Israeli ambulance prepares to evacuate person wounded in Palestinian attack on settlement
Israeli officials say their war against terror is not over, after Palestinian gunmen killed four Israelis in an attack Saturday on a West Bank Jewish settlement.

 Israeli government spokesman Arie Mekel spoke after the attack at the Adora settlement near the town of Hebron. Seven other people were injured, including two children. There has been no claim of responsibility.

 The Israeli army said three Palestinian gunmen wearing Israeli uniforms infiltrated the settlement and spread out, shooting into one house after another. The gunmen escaped, but military sources said troops on the outskirts of Hebron later killed a Palestinian believed to be one of the infiltrators.

 The latest violence came hours after the United Nations agreed to delay by one day the arrival of a U.N. fact-finding mission to the West Bank refugee camp at Jenin. The U.N. team is now expected to arrive late Sunday.

 Palestinians say hundreds of people were killed during Israel's three-week offensive in Jenin. Israel says about 50 Palestinians were killed, most of them fighters.

 In Bethlehem, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet again Sunday to try to end a 25-day standoff between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops at the Church of the Nativity.

 Some 200 Palestinians remain holed up in the church, including 30 gunmen wanted by Israel. Israel said its soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian militant in the church Saturday as he attempted to plant explosives near the church compound.

 Chief Palestinian negotiator in the talks, Salah al-Taamari, met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Mr. Arafat's Ramallah headquarters Saturday. He later returned to Bethlehem with what he said were fresh instructions for resolving the situation.

 Meanwhile, in Ramallah, Palestinian demonstrators clashed for the second day in a row Saturday with Israeli soldiers maintaining their siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters. The soldiers fired tear gas to push the crowd of about 100 protesters back.
 
 

Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters. 

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