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Israel ignores US call for military withdrawal as toll mounts
JERUSALEM, Oct 23 (AFP) -
The Israeli army extended its incursions into Palestinian areas
overnight after flatly rejecting a US demand for its "immediate"
withdrawal from self-rule towns in the West Bank, Palestinian security
officials said Tuesday.
With Israeli forces already battling gunmen in six Palestinian West Bank
towns, troops were sent into Palestinian refugee camps at Rafah in the
southern Gaza Strip overnight Monday, the sources said.
Several homes were said to have been destroyed, but there were no
reports of casualties.
The latest incursion came hours after Israel rejected US demands to
withdraw its forces from the Palestinian towns they have operated in
since October 18 when the army mounted its heaviest incursions since the
launch of Palestinian autonomy in 1994.
The US State Department urged the Israeli forces to withdraw
"immediately" from all Palestinian-controlled areas, while calling on
Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority to do more to stamp out violence.
That call came as an Islamic militant was killed by Israeli agents,
bringing the toll from the incursions to 27 Palestinians dead.
State Department spokesman Philip Reeker condemned "Israeli defense
force actions that have killed numerous Palestinian civilians over the
weekend".
Reeker termed as "unacceptable" the deaths of "innocent civilians" and
said the Israeli incursions into Palestinian-controlled areas "have
contributed to a significant escalation in tension and violence".
However Israeli radio reported officials close to Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon as saying that the army would "stay in its new positions so long
as the threat of attack exists from terrorist organisations against
which the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing,"
Israel mounted its military incursion into the Palestinian towns, with
Bethlehem the prime target, a day after tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi
was assassinated in annexed east Jerusalem by Palestinian radicals on
October 17.
After the murder, "Israel like any other democratic country... must
exercise its right to self-defence for all its inhabitants," said a
statement from the prime minister's office, in reaction to the US demand
for a pullout.
"Israel does not intend to conquer the territories of zone A (under full
Palestinian control under autonomy accords) but demands that Yasser
Arafat extradite the killers of Rehavam Zeevi and those who sent them."
The killing of Zeevi was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine (PFLP) as revenge for an Israeli missile attack that killed
its own leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, in August.
Arafat's police have rounded up more than 30 PFLP members and around 60
more are on the run, a PFLP leader said, but the Palestinian Authority
has said it has no intention of turning them over to Israel.
The Authority has also outlawed the PFLP's armed wing in a move hailed
by US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
At the United Nations, Palestinian representative Nasser al-Kidwa called
for an immediate meeting of the Security Council to oblige Israel to
withdraw from Palestinian areas.
In Washington, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said finding
peace in the Middle East was part of the way to win the global war on
terrorism.
In the latest violence, a senior member of the armed wing of the
hardline Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas was killed late Monday when
Israeli agents blew up his car in the West Bank town of Nablus, Hamas
officials said.
The Israelis did not, however, claim immediate responsibility for the
Nablus blast.
Heavy machinegun fire from Israeli tanks also killed a 65-year-old
Palestinian man and injured his two teenage daughters earlier in a
refugee camp near Nablus, Palestinian security officials said.
Meanwhile Israeli police said they were treating a west Jerusalem
shooting incident in which four Israelis were wounded as a terrorist
attack rather than the act of a lone Palestinian gunman.
A radical group, Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the attack.
"Martyr" Yussef Mahmoud Mohammad Ayesh, 33, a member of the group's
armed wing, the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Brigades, carried out the attack to
avenge Israel's killings in Bethlehem and other West Bank towns, it
said. He was shot dead by a passing soldier.
On Israel's tense northern border with Lebanon on Monday, Hezbollah
Shiite guerrillas fired rockets at two Israeli army posts in the
disputed Shebaa Farms region, provoking Israeli air and artillery
strikes on hill villages in southern Lebanon.
The latest deaths brought the overall toll of the 13-month Palestinian
uprising to 907, including 707 Palestinians and 178 Israelis.
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