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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon convened Cabinet
ministers to approve the next
stage of the open-ended
Operation Protective Wall.”
Only two major West Bank
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CI’V/IA' ^ I control late Wednesday.
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support for the Israeli assault.
“He understands and respects
Israel’s right to defend her
self,” White House spokesper
son Ari Fleischer said.
But daily anti-Israeli
protests in the Arab world grew
more violent. Thousands of
Lebanese and Palestinians
clashed with security forces
Wednesday outside the U.S.
Embassy in Beirut, with at
least 25 reported injured as
protesters threw stones and
security forces used tear gas
and water cannons.
Under pressure to cut off ties
completely with Israel, Egypt
took a more limited step
Wednesday, announcing it would
suspend all diplomatic contacts
with Israel except those aimed at
helping the Palestinians.
In five major Palestinian
towns under full Israeli control
— Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Jenin,
Tulkarem and Bethlehem —
tanks patrolled streets, enforcing
strict curfews that confined hun
dreds of thousands of
Palestinians to their homes. In
Ramallah, residents were with
out water after city officials said
Israeli troops destroyed the main
pumping station when shelling a
Palestinian security compound.
The incursion into Nablus
— a city of more than 100,000
people in the northern West
Bank — began Wednesday
evening. Shellfire thundered as
tanks began rolling into the
city. Gunmen and Palestinian
police were moving in the
streets, closing roads with sand
bags and planting mines.
A Palestinian woman was
killed and five people wounded,
apparently when shells hit two
apartments in downtown Nablus.
Fighting was heaviest
Wednesday in Jenin, a militant
stronghold north of Nablus
that Israel has invaded six
times before in the past 18
months of fighting.
Dozens of tanks entered
Jenin and surrounded the adja
cent refugee camp early
Wednesday. Helicopters and
tanks fired machine guns at gun
men who hurled grenades and
fired assault rifles. Five people,
including a militia leader, a
nurse and a 13-year-old boy,
were killed in the fighting. An
Israeli officer was also killed.
Armed men in the camp had
prepared large amounts of
homemade grenades and bombs
and built barricades to make it
harder for Israeli tanks to enter.
Militiamen claimed they dam
aged tracks of six tanks.
Ali Safouri, a militia leader,
said he and his men felt that,
judging by Israel’s tough sweep
through Ramallah, this was their
last stand. He said they were try
ing to make every bullet count.
“We use it for sniping only, we
are not shooting in all direc
tions,” Safouri said by telephone.
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