Palestinians Kill Jewish Settler, Weakening Truce

Reuters ^ | June 24, 2005 | Haitham Tamimi

[West Coast Conservative]

Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler and wounded several more in a West Bank drive-by shooting on Friday in a new blow to a faltering Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire.

The attack, the second killing of a settler in four days, followed Israel's detention of 63 suspected Islamic Jihad militants in the West Bank and resumption of a policy of assassinating the group's leaders.

The ceasefire agreed in February has been fraying for weeks in Gaza, posing the spectre of disruption to Israel's planned pullout from the territory later this year.

Several other settlers were wounded when militants fired from a passing car at a hitch-hiking post near the West Bank city of Hebron and shortly afterwards at a vehicle near a settlement, the Israeli army said.

The militants fled the area in the southern West Bank and Israeli troops launched a search backed up by helicopter gunships, witnesses said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. On Monday, Islamic Jihad militants shot dead a settler in a drive-by attack in the northern West Bank.

The resurgence of violence marred a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, and on Wednesday Israel reactivated its "targeted killing" policy against Islamic Jihad leaders.

"Today's incidents were another vivid and lethal example of what happens when the Palestinian Authority continues to refuse to take the necessary steps to prevent terror against Israelis," said David Baker, an official in Sharon's office.

Sharon accused Abbas of not living up to pledges to disarm militant groups, a precondition for U.S.-backed "road map" peace talks aimed at giving the Palestinians a state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.

[manny613]

So why the heck is that idiot Arik Sharon pulling out?
He's giving up and destroying one of the country's best areas in economy and population-this is no Sinai Desert.

[lilylangtree]

Time to stop pulling out. Abu Mazen doesn't have control.

[Sabramerican]

Palestinians Kill Jewish Settler, Weakening Truce

I need to sue whoever sold me sold me this dictionary I'm using.

I looked up "truce" and nowhere did it say that one side continues to kill at will.

[IAF ThunderPilot]

A little correction:

A group of Palestinian terrorists in a car shot at teenagers who were standing at a junction, waiting for a ride.
A 15 years old teenager was murdered, and few others were injured.

Here now its accurate.