The bombers of Hamas struck at the heart of student life on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 70 in a lunchtime attack on a crowded university cafeteria. The Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University had remained a rare preserve of co-existence.
Israeli government and military officials on Wednesday tried to shift the blame to each other for a devastating one-tonne bomb dropped on a Gaza neighbourhood that killed a Hamas military commander and 10 children. The internal debate on Israel’s strategy of assassinating Palestinian militants raged.
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/ 19 January 2001
The eruption of anger against the assassination campaign follows the slaying on December 31 of Thabet Thabet.
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/ 28 February 1997
cuts Jim Day and Tangeni Amupadhi WHEN Wits University Vice-Chancellor Robert Charlton waggled a placard on Jan Smuts Avenue this week, he could count among his allies students who have spent much of this week disrupting campuses across the country. Charlton, a staunch opponent of such misbehaviour, struck the unlikely alliance to protest the belt-tightening […]