ISRAEL REACTS TO KILLINGS
Israel freezes contacts, launches W. Bank clampdown.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel suspended all security contacts with the Palestinians and sealed off biblical Bethlehem in a West Bank clampdown on Monday after gunmen killed three settlers in the deadliest attack on Israelis in months.
The flare-up on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, including Israel’s killing of a senior Islamic militant, came a month after the Jewish state completed its pullout from the Gaza Strip to end 38 years of military rule.
The latest fighting stirred new doubts about an already shaky eight-month-old ceasefire and undermined hopes the Gaza pullout would spur renewed peacemaking.
AL REUTERS CAN'T KEEP IT'S BIAS FROM LEAKING THROUGH THIS STORY. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS, ISRAEL DECIDED NOT TO STAND BY WHILE ITS CITIZENS ARE MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. AT LEAST FOR A DAY. BY THE WAY, THE THREE "SETTLERS" MURDERED YESTERDAY WERE "HUMAN BEINGS." YOUNG PEOPLE.
Yisrael Adler will bury his wife of two months, Matat Rosenfeld-Adler, 21, on Monday. She was murdered by Palestinians in a drive-by terror attack, together with her cousin, Kinneret Mandel, 23. Both were residents of Carmel in the south Hebron hills. Oz Ben-Meir, 15, was from nearby Maon. (Ynet News)
Voice of Palestine Radio, the official voice of Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, declared Sunday that both shooting attacks that day on Israelis were carried out by members of the Fatah organization headed by PLO leader Abbas. "Both armed attacks were carried out by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades which are part of the Fatah Movement," asserted Voice of Palestine, which, along with the other Palestinian media, stressed that the attacks were on "mustawtaneen" - the Arabic word for settlers. (IMRA)
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