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Mar. 4, 2003 Two Palestinians killed, two Border Policemen wounded in West Bank (UPDATE) By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Two Palestinians were killed in the West Bank on Tuesday as IDF forces continued operations in the old city in Nablus and Jenin to arrest fugitives and search for explosives and weapons caches. In Jenin, two undercover Border Policemen were wounded when an Islamic Jihad fugitive drew his gun and shot them as they attempted to arrest him in a local internet cafe. The two returned fire lightly wounding Islamic Jihad fugitive Iyad Jawadat who was arrested along with six other suspects. The...

A bomb exploded early Sunday in Lebanon's largest refugee camp, according to Palestinian officials. No casualties were reported as a result of the explosion. The officials, requesting anonymity, said the bomb went off at the entrance of the Al Saiqa office in the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp at 5:30 a.m. (local time) as the guards were performing morning Muslim prayers, SPA reported. The office's gate was damaged, the officials added. Lebanese security officials confirmed that a bomb went off in the camp on the edge of the southern city of Sidon.

A concussion grenade exploded outside the office of the UN Relief and Works Agency in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday, damaging the building complex but causing no casualties, witnesses said. Details were not immediately available regarding who was responsible for the incident, the second in the past two weeks targeting UNRWA, which has recently cut its services. The blast occurred in the early hours of the morning, when the office and surrounding streets were largely empty. Armed factions who have effective control of Ain al-Hilweh fanned out following the blast. Refugees have staged protests in recent weeks...

Israeli security forces arrested Sunday a Fatah leader in the West Bank village of Dura, south of Hebron. Israel said that the man, Jamal Rajoub, is responsible for several shooting attacks in the Hebron area. Meanwhile, an Israeli citizen was lightly injured Sunday morning when shots were fired at him near the settlement of Avnei Hefetz near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The man managed to reach a nearby Israli outpost where he received medical treatment. Earlier in the day, four mortars were fired at Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported. A Palestinian was...

A member of a Muslim extremist group wanted by Lebanese authorities for theft and other charges was found dead Tuesday in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanese and Palestinian officials said. According to AP, the officials said that Yasser Sheikho, 25, a Syrian Kurd, was hit by one bullet in the head and left on a street at the center of the Ein el-Hilweh camp on the outskirts of this southern city. Bruises on his body indicated he was tortured before being killed, the officials added. Palestinian officials said Sheikho was a member of the radical al-Nour group,...

Islamic groups exert growing influence An alliance of Islamist factions is claiming ground in the political arena After three days of clashes in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp between Fatah members and Islamist insurgents, a new political dynamic has emerged, leaving Fatah, which has long enjoyed unilateral control of the camp, confronting the growing influence of Islamist groups. Observers say that an alliance of Islamist factions, including Esbat al-Ansar, Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Sheikh Jamal Khattab’s movement, has entered the camp’s political arena and is proving to be just as ­ if not more than ­ influential as Fatah....

The Lebanese army was laying siege to a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, demanding the handover of a man accused of killing three of its intelligence agents before taking refuge with a militant Palestinian group inside. The army, which sent reinforcements into the Sidon area 40 kilometers (south of Beirut and around the camp, called on camp leaders to seek out and surrender Badih Hamade, a Lebanese Shiite. According to AFP, Palestinian sources said Friday, that Hamade was hiding in the Ain al Helweh camp with Sheikh Abdullah Shreidi, leader of a splinter group of the fundamentalist Usbat al-Ansar,...

Three Lebanese security officers were shot dead on Thursday during a raid on the home of a member of a Palestinian Islamist group in the southern port city of Sidon, security sources said. They said they were targeting a member of Usbat al-Ansar, a radical group based in the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh. According to Reuters, witnesses said the Lebanese army rushed to seal off the area and detained several people. Usbat al-Ansar is headed by a Palestinian Islamist who is a fugitive from a death sentence in Lebanon. The United States has ordered a freeze on...

<p>This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, April 30, 2002, that has been edited for clarity. Click here to order the complete transcript.This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, April 30, 2002, that has been edited for clarity. Click here to order the complete transcript.</p>

Ever since I can remember the media has spoken about Palestinian Refuge Camps. At times I wondered why so many could not or would not seek a better life somewhere else, as so many displaced persons have done throughout history; but I never questioned the word "camp." The so-called "horror" of Janin brought into the open the misuse of the word "camp." As every one could see on TV and in the newspapers Janin is a city with three story houses. How can such structures fall into the category of "camp?" Isn't it true that a camp is temporary shelter...

Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime- Phil Reeves in Jenin, 16 April 2002 excerpts from article A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins..... Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake furnishings, mattresses, white plastic chairs spewed out into the road. Every other building bears the giant, charred, impact mark of...

Addressing the Knesset today, with his lies, Sharon does not hesitate mentioning alleged documents, while his criminal occupation forces are plowing the Jenin Refugee Camp one house after another, and while the Palestinian corpses are scattered everywhere, his forces forbid journalists from entering to documents his planned war crimes against the Palestinians, civilians and defenders, indicating that he is trying to draw the world attention away from the actual criminal events.Wafa reporter says, at the moment there are 14 Israeli bulldozers demolishing the houses from all direction while the USA made gunship Apache helicopters are shelling the Camp randomly leaving...