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Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Israeli
By Stephen Graham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Yasser
Arafat appointed a new national
security adviser Monday, an
apparent bid to reassert control
over the Palestinian security
forces and undermine his prime
minister, Mahmoud Abbas.
Arafat is locked in a struggle
over control of the Palestinian
security forces with Abbas, who
has Washington’s backing and is
under pressure to crack down on
Palestinian militants following a
Hamas suicide bombing last
week. The bombing and Israel’s
fierce response has thrown the
U.S.-backed “road map’’ peace
plan into turmoil.
In Gaza City, Hamas sup
porters warned Israel to “pre
pare coffins” after burying four
militants killed in an Israeli mis
sile strike Sunday, just four days
after a similar strike killed a sen
ior Hamas leader.
Abbas’ Cabinet had no direct
ay in Arafat’s decision to
appoint Brig. Gen. Jibril Rajoub
id establish a new national
security council, which Arafat
himself will chair.
Rajoub said the security
council will oversee “reform of
ihe security forces and its lead
ership.” But he refused to dis
cuss the scope or timing of its
work. “Let’s wait and see. We’re
still starting up,” he said.
Israel and the United States
want Palestinian authorities to
unify their security forces in
order to dismantle the armed
groups — a key provision of the
“road map.” Secretary of State
missiles hit Gaza City
Israeli missiles
kill bystander,
wound at least 26
The target of the attack in Gaza
City, a member of the Hamas
military wing, managed to flee
before missiles struck the vehicle
he was riding in, witnesses said.
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Colin Powell last week
appealed in vain to Arafat to
give Abbas full authority over
security so he can clamp down
on Islamic militants.
Abbas was appointed in April
under heavy U.S. and Israeli
pressure to find an alternative to
Arafat. But even he has been
reluctant to crack down on mili
tants, fearing it could spark civil
war among the Palestinians.
Arafat fired Rajoub from his
role as West Bank security chief
in July 2002 after an argument.
But Rajoub and Abbas’ security
chief Mohammed Dahlan are
also adversaries, and it
appeared Arafat was trying to
use Rajoub in his campaign to
undermine Abbas’ fledgling
government.
Ghassan Khatib, a minister in
Abbas’ Cabinet, said the
appointment was baffling and
acknowledged Rajoub’s pres
ence at Arafat’s side could fur
ther complicate relations
between Arafat and Abbas.
“The appointment might add
to the tension, but we don’t
know yet because we don’t
know what the appointment
means,” Khatib said.
Rajoub said the council
would “oversee cooperation”
with the United States, Russia,
the United Nations and the
European Union, the four back
ers of the peace plan.
Israel insists it has not aban
doned the peace plan. But Army
chief Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon
declared on Sunday that every
member of Hamas was now “a
potential target for liquidation,”
underlining the tough new
Israeli policy adopted after the
Hamas bus bombing in
Jerusalem last week that killed
21 people.
Its strike Sunday killed
Ahmed Aishtawi, a top Hamas
operative, as well as three others
close to the crowded beach front
in Gaza City.
Some of the victims were
decapitated by the assault, and
more than a dozen bystanders
were injured. Hamas was defiant.
“Our response will be painful
and quick,” the Hamas military
wing, Izzedine al Qassam, said
in a statement.
“We are on the way, and we
say to him that your assassina
tions will only bring death and
destruction to your people in
their own homes,” one speaker
at the funeral said. Pointing a
rifle toward the two bodies, he
added: “All of us wish to be in
their places.”
On Monday evening, Hamas
distributed a five-point list of
instructions at Gaza mosques on
how militants could avoid Israeli
air strikes.
The statements, carrying a
Hamas logo, urged fighters to
avoid making appointments by
cell phone for fear of Israeli
eavesdroppers, to avoid travel
ing by car, especially in groups
on main streets, and to use
makeup and clothes to disguise
themselves.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank
city of Hebron, police and sol
diers removed some 50 Jewish
settlers and a trailer from a site
known as Worshippers Way.
Five settlers who refused to go
were arrested, police said.
Since November, when an
Islamic Jihad ambush in the
area killed 12 security guards
and soldiers, settlers have
repeatedly tried to establish an
illegal outpost.
Under intense U.S. pressure
to carry out commitments under
the “road map” peace plan,
Israel has dismantled several
West Bank outposts but has
failed to freeze construction at
established settlements and to
remove dozens of other illegal
outposts as the plan demands.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Heat wave in France
leaves thousands dead
THIAIS, France (AP) — The neat rows
of freshly dug graves at a cemetery out
side Paris illustrate the latest grim twist
in the fallout over this summer’s deadly
heat wave.
The city has a backlog of 400 identified but
unclaimed bodies it must bury from a blis
tering heat wave that has killed thousands of
people. So a section of the Square of
Indigents at the Thiais Cemetery will serve
as a resting place — if only temporarily.
Paris officials said Monday that the 400
corpses would be buried Sept. 1 at the
cemetery south of Paris. If the family
turns up later, the body can be reburied
elsewhere.
“Families can come when they want,
recover the body and organize a funeral or
cremation, as they wish,” said Cendrine
Chapelle, a city employee.
August is the traditional month for sum
mer vacation in France, and many have
accused families of leaving their elderly rel
atives at home during the two-week heat
wave — and then delaying burials until
after the holiday.
Officials were still compiling the casual
ty count from the record heat that started
in early August when temperatures
reached 104.
The biggest French chain of undertak
ers has estimated that more than 10,000
people died over the two-week span. The
government initially said the estimate was
probably correct, but Prime Minister Jean-
Pierre Raffarin later said the figure is
unreliable. A final death toll is not expect
ed for weeks.
For now, the unclaimed bodies are in
makeshift morgues in and around the
French capital.
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