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UN’s Middle East envoy and top rights official deplore Jerusalem bomb attack 4 March - The senior United Nations Middle East envoy and the Organization’s top human rights official have strongly condemned Saturday’s fatal bomb attack in Jerusalem. In separate statements issued, respectively, in Gaza and Bahrain, Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, and Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, also called for a comprehensive approach to resolving the conflict peacefully. Distressed by the heavy loss of civilian lives in the bombing – which reportedly killed 9 Israeli civilians and injured ...

Gunman Kills 3 in Tel Aviv After 17 Palestinians Die in West Bank By SERGE SCHMEMANN ERUSALEM, Tuesday, March 5 — Still burying its dead from the weekend's bloodshed, Israel unleashed its anger at Palestinians throughout their territories on Monday. Helicopters fired shells that landed near Yasir Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, and an Israeli tank shell ripped into a pickup truck there, killing a woman and her children before the eyes of passing schoolchildren. Then early today a lone gunman armed with an M-16 assault rifle fired into a popular Tel Aviv night spot, killing three Israelis and wounding ...

ALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank, March 2 — The Israeli army said its soldiers found six makeshift rockets and stores of bomb-making chemicals today as they continued ransacking this camp, punching holes through walls as they hunted house-to-house for Palestinian militants and munitions. On the third day of two raids that Israel says have left 30 Palestinians dead, soldiers were still occupying many cinder-block homes here and were searching a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin. The colonels in charge of the two operations claimed success for the raids, the first Israeli invasions of Palestinian refugee camps. ...

Mon Mar 4, 2002 Israeli Helicopters Hit Arafat Compound; He's Unhurt RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a building inside Yasser Arafat's headquarters compound Monday, but the Palestinian president was unhurt, Palestinian officials said. The missiles hit a military intelligence building some 10 to 15 yards from Arafat's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the officials said. The air raid was the latest in a series of Israeli assaults in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in retaliation for Palestinian attacks that have killed 22 Israelis since Saturday. Israeli F-16 planes destroyed a Palestinian ...

(12:20) Palestinians report four dead, dozens wounded in Jenin Palestinian sources say at least four Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in the heavy and ongoing exchanges of gunfire between Palestinians and army forces in the camp, Israel Radio reported. They also say Israeli helicopters began firing on the camp a short time ago. The four dead include two women and a leader of Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigade. Palestinian sources say the leader was involved in attacks against Israelis and was wanted by Israeli security forces. An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded. For more information on the army's operation ...

Powell endorses Mubarak summit proposal, says Arafat remains Palestinians' leader BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic WriterMonday, March 4, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/03/04/national1619EST0727.DTL (03-04) 13:19 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed on Monday a proposal by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for an Israeli-Palestinian summit meeting. Powell took up the proposition with Mubarak, who offered to play host to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "It's an interesting idea," Powell said. However, he said a decision ultimately was up to Sharon and Arafat. At a brief news conference after talking to Javier Solana, the ...

Sharon: We must hit the Palestinians again and again It's us or the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told reporters during a briefing in the Knesset cafeteria this evening. Israel must hit the Palestinians hard and only then will the two sides be able to restart negotiations, Sharon said. "We can't have talks as long as the Palestinians don't understand they cannot achieve anything through terror," Sharon told The Jerusalem Post and other journalists during the briefing. Sharon also referred to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat as "the father of all terror." The IDF will take all precautions during its ...

JERUSALEM -- Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah will not present a new Mideast peace proposal at an Arab summit this month unless Israel lifts travel restrictions on Yasser Arafat and allows him to attend, a senior Palestinian official said Monday. "Prince Abdullah informed me that he would not present his ideas to the Arab summit if President Arafat didn't participate in it," Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath told The Associated Press by phone from Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, a day after meeting Abdullah. Shaath said Abdullah also raised Israel's travel ban on Arafat with senior U.S. officials and was optimistic he would ...

<p>DEHEISEH CAMP, West Bank -- Israel announced a program of "continuous military pressure" last night after bloody Palestinian onslaughts against children, women, civilians and soldiers left 21 persons dead in 24 hours of mayhem.</p> <p>In the latest attack, a lone sniper opened fire yesterday on a checkpoint in the West Bank, killing seven soldiers and three Israeli settlers before fleeing.</p>

<p>RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) --  Israel stepped up reprisals Monday for Palestinian shootings and bombings, killing 16 Palestinians including the wife and three children of an Islamic militant leader and a doctor whose ambulance was hit during rescue efforts.</p> <p>Israel's security Cabinet decided late Sunday to intensify military strikes after 22 Israelis were killed in four weekend attacks by Palestinian militants. Israeli troops raided two Palestinian refugee camps Monday, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said his country was at war.</p>

Opinion in the West Bank and Gaza Strip now has the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Yasser Arafat, at the peak of their popularity. Palestinian journalists report that the fact that almost all the attacks on Israeli targets are being carried out by the Fatah's Tanzim militias, through the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, has greatly improved the prestige of the PA in Palestinian eyes. This new-found prestige stands out against a backdrop on which most of the attacks till recently were perpetrated by opposition groups, like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, while the PA's security forces were arresting and jailing those who ...

Jewish World Review March 4, 2002 / 20 Adar, 5762 JERUSALEM DIARIST "Where's My Baby? Where's My Arm?" http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Chana had just heard the havdala ceremony from the rejoicing fathers and uncles of her newphew, the bar mitzvah boy. The family was in Jerusalem for the Sabbath to join with their relatives for the simcha, joyous event. The women and children were gathered outside the guest house in the Beis Yisrael section of Mea Shearim. In the Toldos Aharon area, the Chassidic communal tisch was still going strong, even though it was one hour after the end of the ...

Israeli army 'faces defeat' in war against PalestiniansBy Alan Philps (Filed: 01/03/2002) ISRAEL'S leading military historian has a bleak message for the country's generals: the army is winning the battle against Palestinian armed groups, but the final result can only be defeat - and perhaps civil war at home. Martin van Creveld, professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, believes that the might of the Israeli army is proving to be "99 per cent irrelevant" in the battle now in its 17th month. More important, he believes, will be the morale of the Israeli army, which is ...

Carnage by lone sniper sends shock waves through Israel's military establishment _ and beyond LAURA KING, AP Special CorrespondentMonday, March 4, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/03/04/international1350EST0652.DTL (03-04) 10:50 PST JERUSALEM (AP) -- They were picked off methodically, one by one: first the Israeli soldiers manning an isolated West Bank roadblock, then their commander, then a medic, then the reinforcements who rushed to help -- seven soldiers, together with three civilians, all killed by a lone gunman armed only with an old single-shot rifle, taking aim from under an olive tree. Critics are calling it one of Israel's biggest military ...

By Margot DudkevitchOFRA (March 4) - Shortly after 6:30 a.m. yesterday, a lone Palestinian sniper crouched under an olive tree on the side of a mountain overlooking an army roadblock on the Ramallah-Nablus road. He fired 25 bullets from his carbine, killing 10 soldiers and civilians and wounding four, before escaping unharmed. The roadblock, situated next to the old British police station, is 1.5 kilometers north of Ofra and was erected after Sarah Leisha, a teacher, and navy Leading Rating Elad Wallerstein and air force Cpl. Amit Zenah were killed nearby in two shooting attacks on the night of November ...

Chicago student celebrates recovery from terror attack By Melissa Radler March, 03 2002 NEW YORK (March 3) - Shayna Gould, a 19-year-old American student given a 3 percent chance of surviving a terrorist attack in Jerusalem last month, returned home last week to Skokie, Illinois, in good health, good spirits, and accompanied by an Israeli-Arab doctor who saved her life. "Everyone was so supportive and so sweet and kind to me," said Gould in a phone conversation following a press conference at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Fed-eration of Metropolitan Chicago Thursday. "All the e-mails and letters and phone calls ...

Heard the bomb, lots of sirens, just made the TV. Seems the Palestinians have send another peace payment...

Mary Robinson reads script written by Kofi Annan (My title) 1 March – Backing a statement issued yesterday by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today called on Israel to withdraw from refugee camps in the Palestinian towns of Nablus and Jenin, while urging all concerned to promote a political settlement. High Commissioner Mary Robinson, currently travelling in Cairo, expressed “dismay” at the incursion, which killed some 17 Palestinians – injuring many more – and one Israeli soldier “in total disregard of international human rights and humanitarian law.” She joined Mr. Annan in calling ...

<p>Why was Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl abducted, tortured, then murdered? Let's quote one of the killers, Fahad Naseem: Mr. Pearl was "anti-Islam and a Jew."</p> <p>Cold? Too damn cold. Blunt words? Bluntly indicative of the hard men and hardened mindsets within al Qaeda and a score of other terror clans.</p>

Conquer or capitulate Martin Sherman March, 01 2002 (March 1) - Even the most cursory glance at the basic arithmetic of the Israeli-Arab conflict and its history, should be sufficient to underscore the total futility of the Israeli government's current policy towards the Palestinian violence. During Israel's War of Independence, the newly-founded Jewish nation, infused with a resolute sense of purpose, was not swayed from its aspiration to achieve political sovereignty, despite the tremendous casualties the pursuit of this aspiration demanded of it. In spite of the fact that the Jewish population numbered barely 600,000, even the terrible loss ...