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RAMALLAH. West Bank (AP) — Israel
zed control of Bethlehem and another Wesl
nk town Tuesday in a day of wild fighting that
tat least 13 Palestinians dead. Palestinian gun-
n forced their way into the Church of the
tivity, where tradition says Jesus was bom.
Israeli tanks and helicopters pounded the
adquarters of a Palestinian security chief.
Amid what has become the fiercest Israeli
ensive in 18 months of conflict, Palestinian
fder Yasser Arafat angrily rejected an Israeli
iferto free him from confinement in his com-
lund in the West Bank town of Ramallah —
ovided he goes into exile. Arafat spent a fifth
raight day pinned down by Israeli troops and
nks, his compound now ringed by barbed wire.
Israeli troops pressed ahead with house-to-
ouse searches for Palestinian militants and
eapons as part of what Israel calls “Operation
'rotective Wall" — aimed at halting terror
ittacks targeting Israelis.
In the seventh such attack in as many days, a
I Palestinian man blew himself up Tuesday night
Toll mounts over
six days
Tuesday’s fighting came as
Israel widened its five-day-old
military offensive “Operation
Protective Wall," launched to
uproot militants blamed for a
sting of terror attacks on
Israelis.
West Bank
|— March 29
Israeli Cabinet
declares Arafat an
'enemy." Troops
enter city and
confine Arafat to an
office building within
his compound.
Ramallah
Bethlehem
April 2
Heavy fighting
around religious
sites
when security forces stopped him at a checkpoint
in Baka al-Sharkiyeh, a Palestinian village along
the line between Israel and the West Bank. The
man detonated explosives strapped around his
body, killing himself but not injuring others, the
military said.
In a dramatic gesture that underscored hard
ships caused by the Israeli incursion, Palestinians
buried 15 of their dead in a hospital parking lot in
Ramallah. Families of the dead had been unable
to claim the bodies, which were decomposing in
a hospital morgue because power cuts made
refrigeration impossible. Relatives wailed and
gunfire from fighting echoed as the bodies were
placed in common graves carved out by a bull
dozer — one for 13 men, one for two women.
Ramallah residents, though, got a respite of a
few hours from a curfew that has been in effect
since Israeli tanks and troops moved in on Friday.
People poured into the shops, lugging away can
isters of cooking oil and plastic bags bulging
with pita bread. Canned goods were popular, as
many people have no electricity and perishable
food has been rotting in refrigerators.
By nightfall, most of the about 400
Palestinians trapped in the compound of West
Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub near Ramallah
had surrendered to Israeli troops, in a deal bro
kered by U.S. and European officials. About
eight men remained inside.
The sprawling compound was battered by
the Israeli onslaught, with gaping holes
punched in rooftops and building facades by
shellfire and rockets.
Holy places were not immune from violence
that raged the length and breadth of the West
Bank. Dozens of armed Palestinians were holed
up inside the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem, which is built over the grotto where
tradition says Jesus was born. About 20 of the
gunmen were wounded and being tended to by
nuns, according to witnesses trapped in the
church compound.
The armed men, some of them Palestinian
policemen, forced their way into the church after
running battles with Israeli troops firing from
helicopter gunships and from tank-mounted
machine guns.
At nightfall, the bodies of four gunmen lay
sprawled just off Manger Square, where the
church is located.
As the fighting intensified, Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon proposed publicly for the first time
that diplomats fly Arafat into exile. Sharon noted
such a move would require Cabinet approval.
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portunitiest ^ angering Russia over the war in Chechnya.
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start a dialogue on ending the Chechnya war.
In Washington, however, State Department
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sought to allow the department time to consult
Congress on the best use of funds.
Reeker added that RFE/RL are not subordinate to
the State Department and do not broadcast editori
als in support of U.S. government policies. The sta
tions attempt to provide objective reporting, he said.
Winter said Tuesday the last meeting of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors that oversees
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proceed with the programming and “instructed
us to go ahead.”
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