Posted on 03/09/2002 1:06:37 PM PST by Ranger
Almost 600 Palestinians, including some 60 members of the security services, were rounded up by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem over the past 24 hours and taken to Israel for interrogation, military sources said on Saturday.
An earlier toll put the number of arrests at 400.
The Israeli army occupied Tulkarem and the two neighbouring refugee camps Thursday. After fighting that killed eight Palestinians and one Israeli soldier, Tulkarem camp and town was still occupied on Saturday.
Searches for other "terrorists and armed Palestinians" were continuing, the sources added.
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