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Four Palestinians were killed near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Monday night and six others were wounded when the IAF fired a missile at them from a helicopter flying overhead, Palestinian sources said. The incident was a result of a joint operation between the IAF and IDF special forces, entering deep into the Gaza Strip for the first time since the disengagement from the Gaza Strip last summer. Israel Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying that among the wounded were two journalists and an ambulance driver. The IDF positively confirmed that the Palestinians were preparing to launch...

On Joseph´s tomb and the Temple Mount The government has still said and done nothing about the desecration of Joseph's Tomb in Shechem - and the army is not happy about it. Senior IDF officials say that the government's apathy is costing Israel a price in both the religious and security spheres. Lt.-Col. Rabbi Avi Ronsky told Arutz-7 that he has first-hand knowledge of the contacts between the army and the government in this area, and "the decision to do something about it is solely in the hands of the Prime Minister." Lt.-Col. Ronsky says that the PA interprets...

Yasser Arafat has again called for an end to Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli civilians because they have "nothing to do with our national rights to resist Israeli occupation and the settlement danger". A high-sounding sentiment in some eyes, perhaps, but it's sharply at odds with how most Palestinians regard the uprising which erupted at the end of September 2000. A poll last month by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre showed that a large majority - nearly seven out of 10 people - supported the suicide operations, about 60% of those expressing their "strong" support. The Palestinian view appears...