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  • Ha`aretz, April 01, 2002; Nisan 19, 5762


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    Monday, April 01, 2002 Nisan 19, 5762
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    Israeli killed in Har Homa shooting attack; 8 hurt near Ramallah

    By Amos Harel, Haim Shadmi and Amira Hass (Ramallah), Ha'aretz Correspondents and Agencies

    An Israeli was killed Monday afternoon near Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. He was taken in critical condition to Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, where he later died of his wounds.
        Earlier Monday, eight Israelis were injured, one seriously and seven moderately to lightly, in a shooting attack in the Ramallah area in the West Bank. The attack took place at around 3:30 P.M. and the eight were taken to the settlement of Beit El and from there to Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus hospitals.
        Large forces of IDF infantry, armor and combat engineers poured into and took over the West Bank town of Qalqilyah overnight, as Israel's "Operation Defense Wall" entered its fourth day Monday.
        Eight soldiers were injured during the thrust into Qalqilyah, one of them seriously. They were hurt when a nearby bomb exploded during searches for wanted men and weapons in the city, Army Radio reported.
        IDF troops were also operating Monday in the Tul Karm area, tightening the blockade over the city, as well as in Beit Jala and other areas near Bethlehem. In Ramallah, they maintained the round-the-clock confinement of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, under virtual house arrest in a small portion of his headquarters compound.
        The IDF was gearing up for operations in other Palestinian population centers as well. Military sources said Sunday that all the cities of the West Bank would gradually be "taken care of," with military activity expected in the Gaza Strip as well.
        Close to midnight Sunday, Palestinians in Qalqilyah reported that electricity and water to the town had been cut, ahead of the IDF push into the city. Soon thereafter, some 100 tanks and other armored vehicles entered and took over the town, which has served in the past as a base for attacks on neighboring Israeli cities, notably Kfar Sava.
        In Ramallah on Sunday, Arafat remained defiant as Israeli troops battled his guards and tightened their ring round his headquarters.
        Witnesses said at least two people were killed and six of Arafat's guards wounded in Ramallah on Sunday, and scores of Palestinians were arrested in the city.
        Masked Palestinian gunmen kill eight collaborators in Tul Karm  Two masked Palestinian gunmen entered an intelligence building in Tul Karm on Monday and killed eight men suspected of collaborating with Israel, security sources and witnesses said.
        The security sources said Palestinian intelligence officers guarding the building had left their posts when Israeli tanks moved towards the town because they believed the army was poised to enter. Their departure allowed the two gunmen to enter the building and shoot the men dead, the sources said.
        Their bodies were dragged out to the road where hundreds of Palestinian onlookers gathered.
        Earlier Monday, the bodies of three Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel were found in the West Bank, Palestinian security sources said. Two were killed after they had been jailed for more than a year.
        In Qalqilyah, the bodies of Iyad Abu Ishab, 20, and Walid Radwan, 22, were found riddled with bullets in a side street of the West Bank town.
        Palestinians security sources said the two men, who had been arrested and charged for collaborating more than a year ago, were killed by their prison guards. It was not immediately known whether the men were killed in jail and whether their bodies were dumped in the street.
        The body of the third suspected collaborator, Mahmood Rahamie, 21, was found in Bethlehem near Manger Square, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. In a statement to Palestinian security forces, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Fatah's military wing, said Rahamie had been killed after he was caught sending information to the Israelis over the Internet and by e-mail.
        The gunmen who are believed to have shot Rahamie dead, confiscated television footage and photographs of the incident.
        A Reuters cameraman and a Reuters photographer who were on the scene shortly afterwards filmed the dead man, who was blindfolded and had his hands tied, as well as his killers.
        The gunmen initially allowed Reuters and several other media organizations to continue filming but later ordered them to hand over the footage and photographs, saying: "We will hold you personally responsible if these pictures appear."

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    Monday, April 01, 2002 Nisan 19, 5762
    Israel Time: 08:01 (GMT+3)
    Last update - 18:55 01/04/2002

    Panel stalls call-up notices for 31,000 reservists

    By Gideon Alon, Ha'aretz Correspondent

    The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee decided Monday not to authorize Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer's request to issue mandatory tzav 8 call-up notices to a second round of 31,000 reservists. Committee members claimed that Ben-Eliezer has not furnished sufficient arguments for calling up this lot reservists and the MKs stressed that they are not prepared to act as rubber stamps.
        The committee is to meet again Thursday to again review the request. It asked that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz appear at this discussion, to explain the rationale behind the request.
        Committee chairman MK David Magen (Center) said that the request has to reviewed in detail, and that matters such as insurance for the reservists must be taken into account.
        MK Yosef Lapid (Shinui) explained that the committee's objections to the request derive from the disdain displayed toward the panel by the government. Sharon's government decided to issue the call-up orders without consulting the committee, Lapid said.
        Ben-Eliezer told the committee that "the IDF's operation will succeed if, when it ends, it will be possible to continue with the political track. The political future is the Saudi [Crown Prince Abdullah] initiative." He also said that the goal of the operation was not to wipe out terrorism, but rather, to wipe out the terror infrastructure.

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