Palestinian losses in agriculture in nearly two years of confrontations with Israel have reached one billion dollars.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said on Monday that his leadership condemned ”all kinds of terrorism,” in a key address to his parliament, adding that he was ready to stand down if the assembly wanted to replace him.
A few grocery stores are still open for business in curfewed Ramallah. A few people brave the otherwise deserted streets and a lone restaurant is buzzing with customers.
AN enraged Yasser Arafat emerged early Thursday morning from Israel’s month-long siege of his headquarters, lashing out at Israel over a gunfight and fire at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.
A senior Palestinian official condemned international ”silence” on Israel’s latest operations in the West Bank, where the army again blockaded the headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Israeli tanks surrounded and attacked Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah headquarters early on Thursday after a radical Islamic group killed at least 17 people in a bus bombing in northern Israel.
A Palestinian was shot dead and two were wounded as more than 70 Israeli tanks and troops pushed towards the centre of Ramallah and encircled the West Bank headquarters of Yasser Arafat.
As the intifada continues to spill blood every day, members of the ”Israeli and Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace” movement donate theirs to build bridges between the two communities.
A FURIOUS Yasser Arafat emerged on Wednesday from five weeks confined to his Ramallah compound denouncing Israel even as it withdrew its troops to the cheers of Palestinian fighters.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met late on Monday with the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, amid heavy violence which the envoy said had left him ”shocked.”
With the exception of a brief trip to the West Bank towns of Jenin and Bethlehem in May, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has not left Ramallah since Israel blew up his helicopters in a raid on Gaza almost 10 months ago.
Israel declared an end to its demolition of Yasser Arafat’s West Bank headquarters, maintaining a siege around the building and demanding surrender of all the people inside, but Palestinian defiance intensified.
Sharon says Arafat is ‘finished’