Word: aqsa
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...Arafat remained defiant, vowing never to surrender and inviting Israel to martyr him. His fight, he said, would be carried forward by Palestinian children. And even as he made this vow, a teenage girl from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket, taking two Israelis with her. Elsewhere, an Islamic Jihad militant killed two Israelis in the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, and four more died at the hands of a Hamas gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Eilon Moreh. At least four Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli incursion into Ramallah...
...celebrating the end of the Sabbath, has long been a favorite killing hour for Palestinian suicide bombers. This week was no exception, despite the presence of large numbers of Israeli troops in Yasser Arafat's offices and throughout Ramallah and other West Bank towns. A member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, linked with Arafat's own Fatah organization, detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv coffee bar Saturday night, killing himself and wounding more than 30 Israelis in a stark reminder that even an Israeli military operation that has sparked worldwide alarm has not managed to stem the tide...
MIDDLE EAST Despite Fresh Attacks, Talks Still Have a Chance Israeli and Palestinian security officials met U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni to discuss the plan drawn up last year by CIA director George Tenet, which requires withdrawal to positions held before the start of the Aqsa intifadeh 18 months ago. The two sides failed to reach agreement, and the Israelis called a halt when a bomber killed himself and three others near shops in West Jerusalem, only a day after a similar attack on a bus killed seven. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks. After Zinni met Israeli Prime Minister...
...killed and some 120 injured in five separate attacks within Israel proper, including the suicide bombing Saturday of a Jerusalem restaurant near the Prime Minister's residence. Three of the assaults were claimed by militant Islamic groups over which Arafat has little control, and two were claimed by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Fatah group...
...return for a withdrawal from occupied territories. But violence continued, and hours after a Palestinian woman blew herself up at a checkpoint, Israel Defense Forces mounted an assault on West Bank refugee camps for the first time in the 17 months of fighting since the declaration of the Aqsa intifadeh...