[iwar] [fc:Ten.Palestinians.killed.in.Israeli.raid.as.Bush.backs.down.on.withdrawal]

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Note: according to this report, the today's kill on on the West Bank 
appears to be 17 Palestinians. 

Wednesday October 24, 8:19 PM

Ten Palestinians killed in Israeli raid as Bush backs down on withdrawal

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 24 (AFP) -

Israeli tanks and attack helicopters mowed down 10 Palestinians in a
night raid on a Palestinian village in the West Bank Wednesday, launched
just hours after US President George W.  Bush backed down on calls for
an "immediate" withdrawal from self-rule towns. 

At least 15 Israeli tanks burst out of the darkness and into Beit Rima,
apparently a stronghold of Palestinian militants, around 3:00 am (0100
GMT). 

As the tank fire rattled through the streets, sealing off all exits to
the town, hundreds of troops combed Palestinian homes in search of
gunmen, the head of the village council, Abdel Karim Jasser, told AFP by
telephone. 

A senior Palestinian official said most of the dead were militants
apparently flushed out of hiding by the door-to-door manhunt.  He said
they were strafed by prowling helicopter gunships as they tried to flee
from the village as the tanks and troops steamed in. 

Public radio quoted army officials as saying at least 10 Palestinians
were killed in the raid. 

A curfew was imposed and villagers were trapped in their homes, Jasser
said. 

An unspecified number of injured were also evacuated, under arrest, in
Israeli army ambulances, village doctor Basim Alrimawi said by
telephone. 

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told parliament the army had made
major headway in smashing Palestininian "terrorist organisations" with a
slew of "very important arrests" in the overnight raid. 

He gave no details, but the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine said the arrested were members of the PFLP, Yasser Arafat's
Fatah movement and the Isralmic resistance movement Hamas. 

The PFLP triggered the massive Israeli push into West Bank cities by
assassinating Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi a week ago. 

Another six Palestinians were killed in scattered violence in the West
Bank overnight, while Israeli tanks fire killed yet another man and
injured three people in fighting on the streets of Bethlehem Wednesday
afternoon. 

The latest deaths brought to 46 the number of Palestinians killed since
the Israeli military offensive in the West Bank was launched on October
18.  No Israelis have died. 

The total toll from the 13-month-old Palestinian intifada, or uprising
against Israeli occupation, now stands at 927 dead, including 727
Palestinians and 178 Israelis. 

The deadly raid came swiftly after US President George W.  Bush backed
down from a head-on collision course with his Israeli ally, softening a
stern State Department warning Monday for Israel to "immediately" end
its partial re-occupation of six Palestinian towns and never return. 

"I would hope that the Israelis remove their troops as quickly as
possible," Bush told reporters at the White House Tuesday, after
dropping into a meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
and US national security advisor Condoleezza Rice. 

Bush repeated a call to Arafat to arrest and bring to justice the people
who assassinated Zeevi. 

Israel sent forces in to towns the length of the West Bank after Zeevi's
killing by the PFLP, which claimed the hit in revenge for Israel's
assasination of its own leader in August. 

The Jewish state rejected Washington's hard-hitting statement Monday,
saying it would only withdraw its troops when Arafat hands over Zeevi's
killers, among whom it ranks PFLP political leader Ahmad Sadat. 

The international community has called on both sides to halt the cycle
of violence, but Israel says Arafat's refusal to extradite suspects has
forced its tanks on to Palestinian streets in the biggest invasion since
the Palestinians won self-rule in 1994. 

Arafat has rounded up dozens of PFLP members and outlawed its armed wing
in a move roundly condemned by hardline groups, which called it a blow
to Palestinian resistance to Israel's occupation of land seized in the
1967 Arab-Israeli war. 

The United States has been pushing both sides to stick to a ceasefire to
allow it to soothe Arab anger at the conflict and allow it a free hand
to press on with attacks on the hardline Islamic regime in Afghanistan. 

In another incident Wednesday, Jewish settlers in a car shot and wounded
six Palestinians travelling in a mini-bus near the West Bank town of
Hebron, a Palestinian who was on the bus told AFP. 

Washington also warned Beirut it cannot stop Israel responding to
attacks by the Lebanese Hezbollah movement on Israeli troops, following
a new bombardment by the Shiite Muslim guerrillas, an authoritative
Lebanese source said. 

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