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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Israel.Gives.Palestinians.48.Hours.to.Seal.Truce]
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Sunday September 30 7:11 AM ET
Israel Gives Palestinians 48 Hours to Seal Truce
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday it was giving the
Palestinians another 48 hours to fulfil their side of a cease-fire
agreement which has failed to stem a year of violence since the sides
re-endorsed it four days ago.
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians early on Sunday, bringing to
at least 16 the number of Palestinians who have died since Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
reaffirmed a truce in talks on Wednesday.
The killings -- including several on Friday and Saturday at marches to
mark a year of a Palestinian uprising -- threaten the shaky truce
Washington hopes will bolster Islamic support for an anti-terror
coalition after the September 11 U.S. attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's inner cabinet decided on Sunday to
go ahead with the cease-fire and lift a crippling blockade in areas of
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
But in the fresh bloodshed, troops killed two Palestinians and wounded
14 others near the West Bank village of Attara as they headed to work in
Israel, taxi driver Azmi Azem, who witnessed the incident, and Israeli
radio reports said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army. But Israel Radio
said the army was investigating the incident.
``Despite my political meeting with Peres, there is a deliberate
escalation from military leaders and some political leaders on all
fronts,'' Arafat told reporters upon arriving in Cairo for talks with
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin said the Palestinian leader was taking
``no real action'' to enforce the cease-fire.
The inner cabinet decided in a four-hour meeting overnight to give
Arafat at least another 48 hours to fulfil the truce, including the
arrest of militants, Israeli officials said.
If that fails, they said they would reassess the situation.
The cabinet also decided to lift a blockade around the West Bank city of
Jericho on Sunday and open the Gaza-Egypt crossing at Rafah, the
officials said.
``Israel has to carry out its obligations,'' officials quoted Defense
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as saying.
At a memorial service for Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 Middle
East war, Sharon -- who served as a general during the war -- said
Israel must not allow Arab countries to violate agreements as they did
shortly before the 1973 conflict.
``The lesson is to demand that agreements are fulfilled -- that is the
only way we will be able to reach the peace that everyone wants,'' he
said, vowing not to repeat the mistake.
TRUCE REAFFIRMED
Peres said it would take time for Arafat to stamp out violence
completely.
``His (Arafat's) situation is not simple either. He says that there is
so much anger and hatred that he has to overcome,'' Peres said
explaining the outbreak of violence at the weekend.
He said Israel was interested in easing its blockade on the West Bank
and Gaza which he said fueled hatred of Israel.
``I have not seen one nation that fights terrorism and does not take
into account what feeds terrorism,'' he told Army Radio.
At least 604 Palestinians and 169 Israelis have been killed in the year
of fighting that erupted after peace talks stalled.
The Israeli army says Palestinians have carried out more than 100
gunfire, grenade and mortar attacks since Wednesday.
If the truce fails to take root, it could sour U.S. efforts to bring
Arab and Islamic states into the anti-terror coalition after the suicide
plane attacks in New York and Washington.
Gissin said the truce was in danger because Palestinians had refused to
implement their side of the bargain and arrest 10 Palestinian militants
starting on Sunday.
But Palestinian officials denied they were asked or agreed to arrest
militants and said Israel had promised to start on Friday to ease a
siege which has crippled the Palestinian economy and caused widespread
economic hardship.
LIST OF 100 MILITANTS
Gissin said Peres had given Arafat a list of 100 militants, including 10
who Israel considers to be ``ticking bombs'' and wants arrested
immediately.
An Israeli security official, who declined to be named, said Palestinian
security officials told Israeli counterparts in a meeting on Friday they
would not arrest militants, a stance the source said could stymie
Israel's steps to ease the closure.
Israel, hit by a bombing campaign by Palestinian militants, blockaded
the Gaza Strip and West Bank after the revolt began last year saying it
was a necessary security measure. Palestinians call the Israeli closure
collective punishment.
The official said by lifting the closure Israel was taking a calculated
risk that militants would not carry out attacks against Israelis, a
gamble it could not take if the Palestinian Authority refused to curb
the activities of militants.
Palestinian officials say they will not arrest people based on Israeli
requests but will arrest those violating Arafat's cease-fire orders.
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