Posted on 04/07/2002 4:46:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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JERUSALEM, April 7 (Reuters) - An Israeli field commander
said on Sunday his troops had killed more than 30 armed
Palestinians in fierce house-to-house fighting in the West Bank
city of Nablus over the past 48 hours.
"There are constant battles -- fighting in alleyways, from
house to house," Colonel Aviv Cochavi, commander of Israel's
Paratroop Brigade, told Reuters by telephone.
"More than 30 terrorists -- armed people -- have been killed
in the past 48 hours," he said about the fighting in the narrow
casbah of Nablus. "Two Israeli soldiers were wounded."
Israeli paratroops moved into Nablus as part of a 10-day-old
offensive in Palestinian cities and villages with the declared
aim of rooting out militants after a wave of suicide bombings in
Israel.
((Jerusalem newsroom, +972-25370502,
jerusalem.newsroom@reuters.com))
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