<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>ClariNews: Hebron violence flares, Hamas threatens attacks</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=3600> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=white> <CLARI-ITEM HEADER> <!-- <CLARI-ITEM XINFO> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> <TR><TD VALIGN=top ALIGN=right><B>Newsgroups:</B> <TD><CLARI-ITEM NEWSGROUPS> <A HREF='clari.web.world.mideast.israel' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.mideast.israel'>clari.web.world.mideast.israel</ A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.mideast.palestine' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.mideast.palestine'>clari.web.world.mideast.pales tine</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.terrorism' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.terrorism'>clari.web.world.terrorism</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.crime.murders.political' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.crime.murders.political'>clari.web.news.crime.mur ders.political</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.features' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.features'>clari.web.news.features</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.top' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.top'>clari.web.world.top</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.front_page' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.front_page'>clari.web.news.front_page</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.crime.murders' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.crime.murders'>clari.web.news.crime.murders</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.photos' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.photos'>clari.web.news.photos</A> </CLARI-ITEM NEWSGROUPS> <TR><TD VALIGN=top ALIGN=right><B>Keywords:</B> <TD><CLARI-ITEM KEYWORDS>urgent</CLARI-ITEM> </TABLE><P> </CLARI-ITEM XINFO> --> <IMG SRC='0322top.gif...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/an/0322top.gif' ALIGN=right WIDTH=56 HEIGHT=56 ALT='Logo [Mar 22]'> <I><A HREF='http://www.clari.net/'>ClariNet</A> <CLARI-ITEM TYPE>story</CLARI-ITEM> <B><CLARI-ITEM SLUGWORD>MIDEAST</CLARI-ITEM></B> from <CLARI-ITEM FROM>Reuter / Mazen Dana</CLARI-ITEM></I><BR> <H1><CLARI-ITEM HEADLINE>Hebron violence flares, Hamas threatens attacks</CLARI-ITEM></H1> <I><B><CLARI-ITEM COPYRIGHT>Copyright 1997 by Reuters</CLARI-ITEM></B></I> / <I><CLARI-ITEM DATE>Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:49:02 PST</CLARI-ITEM></I><P> </CLARI-ITEM HEADER> <CLARI-ITEM PHOTO-TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=1 HSPACE=7 VSPACE=3 ALIGN=right CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=10 BGCOLOR='teal' WIDTH=240> <TR><TD ALIGN=left> <A HREF='cn14549.html...@web.clari.net' CLARI-XFN='xws/aq/cn14549.html'> <IMG SRC='photo-cnt14549.jpg...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/aq/photo-cnt14549.jpg' width=240 height=159 ALT='Photo [Sat, Mar 22]'></A> <BR><P><CLARI-ITEM CAPTION> TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, 22-MAR-97: Israeli soldiers on March 22 use metal sheeting to seal the house of Palestinian suicide bomber who killed three Israeli women at a Tel Aviv cafe on Friday. Palestinians identified the bomber as Mousa Abdel-Qader Ghneimat. [HO Israeli Army, Reuters] </CLARI-ITEM CAPTION></TABLE> </CLARI-ITEM PHOTO-TABLE> <CLARI-ITEM STORY> <P> HEBRON, West Bank (Reuter) - A day after a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, fierce Israeli-Arab clashes flared in the West Bank town of Hebron Saturday and the militant Hamas group threatened more attacks against the Jewish state.</P> <P> Israeli soldiers in Hebron fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and teargas at hundreds of Arab protesters who threw gasoline bombs and rocks.</P> <P> Hospital officials said at least 20 Palestinians were shot and another 80 treated for other injuries or teargas inhalation in some of the most serious Israeli-Palestinian violence in months. One protester lost an eye.</P> <P> Yousef Sharawi, director of Alia Hospital, said it was not yet clear how many of the gunshot wounds were caused by live bullets, which an Israeli military spokesman told Reuters that troops fired on several occasions ``when their lives were in danger.''</P> <P> The Israeli army said four soldiers and three paramilitary border policemen were lightly injured by rocks in the second day of street battles along what has become a battle line dividing the Palestinian- and Israeli-controlled sections of the city.</P> <P> Israeli-Palestinian tension has been high since right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent bulldozers last Tuesday to a hill between Jerusalem and Bethlehem to begin a new Jewish settlement in territory occupied by Israel.</P> <P> ``The persistence of the Zionists to build the dirty settlement on Jabal Abu Ghneim will compel us to continue our attacks, striking against the Zionists,'' said a statement faxed to an international news agency by Hamas' military wing.</P> <P> Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with the settlement at the site Israel calls Har Homa despite Friday's Tel Aviv cafe bombing that killed three Israeli women.</P> <P> ``We do not need much effort to prove our truthfulness and seriousness of our threats ... to teach the arrogant Netanyahu a lesson he will not forget for days and years,'' said the statement signed ``Iz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas Movement Military Branch, Jerusalem - Occupied Palestine.''</P> <P> An anonymous caller to Israeli police Friday said Hamas claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. The faxed statement Saturday referred to the bombing as ``a wonderful martyrdom operation.''</P> <P> During the Hebron protests, Arab youths shouted ``With souls and blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Mousa'' -- invoking the name of Mousa Abdel-Qader Ghneimat, a West Bank resident identified by Palestinian sources as the bomber.</P> <P> In Muscat, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat criticized the United States for vetoing Friday a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Israel halt the housing project.</P> <P> It was the second veto the United States has cast in two weeks to kill a Security Council resolution demanding that Israel shelve the East Jerusalem settlement.</P> <P> Israel's widely condemned plan to build 6,500 homes for Jews would add another link to an Israeli chain of apartment blocks cutting off East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.</P> <P> In Gaza, a Hamas source said Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, a leader of a military wing of the group was arrested by Palestinian security forces Friday.</P> <P> Makadmeh, released from jail by Arafat last week, told a rally Friday after the suicide attack during the Jewish costume holiday of Purim that only bombs could stop Israel's settlement drive.</P> <P> Netanyahu had accused Arafat of tacitly giving Hamas a ``green light'' to strike against the Jewish state by freeing Makadmeh and other militants arrested last year after suicide bombers killed 59 people in Israel.</P> <P> Israel clamped a closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and sealed the home of the suicide bomber in the Israeli-controlled West Bank village of Sourif.</P> <P> Israel radio said Ghneimat had worked as a waiter in Tel Aviv restaurants and spent four years in an Israeli jail for Hamas-related activities.</P> <P> The army said it had arrested 13 Sourif residents and four people from the village of Nuva in the Hebron area as part of the investigation of the Tel Aviv bombing.</P> <P> Israeli authorities Saturday said the baby girl wounded in the cafe lost her mother in the blast. Anat Rosen-Vinter, 31, the infant's mother, was identified as one of the three women killed in the attack.</P> <P> Television pictures broadcast around the world showed an Israeli policewoman cradling the baby, dressed in a tattered clown costume, and looking frantically for the parents. The infant was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover.</P> </CLARI-ITEM STORY> <BR CLEAR=all> <CLARI-ITEM TRAILER> <HR> <A HREF='0322bottom.html...@web.clari.net' CLARI-XFN='xws/ar/0322bottom.html'> <IMG SRC='0322bottom.gif...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/ar/0322bottom.gif' WIDTH=137 HEIGHT=47 BORDER=0 ALT='bottom [Mar 22]'></A> <A HREF='0322extra3.html...@web.clari.net' CLARI-XFN='xws/ao/0322extra3.html'> <IMG SRC='0322extra3.gif...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/ao/0322extra3.gif' BORDER=0 ALT='Icon [Mar 22]'></A> </CLARI-ITEM TRAILER>
<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>ClariNews: Hebron violence flares, Hamas threatens attacks</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=3600> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=white> <CLARI-ITEM HEADER> <!-- <CLARI-ITEM XINFO> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> <TR><TD VALIGN=top ALIGN=right><B>Newsgroups:</B> <TD><CLARI-ITEM NEWSGROUPS> <A HREF='clari.web.news.features' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.features'>clari.web.news.features</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.mideast.israel' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.mideast.israel'>clari.web.world.mideast.israel</ A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.top' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.top'>clari.web.world.top</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.crime.murders.political' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.crime.murders.political'>clari.web.news.crime.mur ders.political</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.mideast.palestine' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.mideast.palestine'>clari.web.world.mideast.pales tine</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.front_page' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.front_page'>clari.web.news.front_page</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.world.terrorism' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.world.terrorism'>clari.web.world.terrorism</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.crime.murders' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.crime.murders'>clari.web.news.crime.murders</A>, <A HREF='clari.web.news.photos' CLARI-XGN='clari.web.news.photos'>clari.web.news.photos</A> </CLARI-ITEM NEWSGROUPS> <TR><TD VALIGN=top ALIGN=right><B>Keywords:</B> <TD><CLARI-ITEM KEYWORDS>urgent</CLARI-ITEM> </TABLE><P> </CLARI-ITEM XINFO> --> <IMG SRC='0322top.gif...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/an/0322top.gif' ALIGN=right WIDTH=56 HEIGHT=56 ALT='Logo [Mar 22]'> <I><A HREF='http://www.clari.net/'>ClariNet</A> <CLARI-ITEM TYPE>story</CLARI-ITEM> <B><CLARI-ITEM SLUGWORD>MIDEAST</CLARI-ITEM></B> from <CLARI-ITEM FROM>Reuter / Mazen Dana</CLARI-ITEM></I><BR> <H1><CLARI-ITEM HEADLINE>Hebron violence flares, Hamas threatens attacks</CLARI-ITEM></H1> <I><B><CLARI-ITEM COPYRIGHT>Copyright 1997 by Reuters</CLARI-ITEM></B></I> / <I><CLARI-ITEM DATE>Sat, 22 Mar 1997 17:40:42 PST</CLARI-ITEM></I><P> </CLARI-ITEM HEADER> <CLARI-ITEM PHOTO-TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=1 HSPACE=7 VSPACE=3 ALIGN=right CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=10 BGCOLOR='green' WIDTH=240> <TR><TD ALIGN=left> <A HREF='cn14549.html...@web.clari.net' CLARI-XFN='xws/aq/cn14549.html'> <IMG SRC='photo-cnt14549.jpg...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/aq/photo-cnt14549.jpg' width=240 height=159 ALT='Photo [Sat, Mar 22]'></A> <BR><P><CLARI-ITEM CAPTION> TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, 22-MAR-97: Israeli soldiers on March 22 use metal sheeting to seal the house of Palestinian suicide bomber who killed three Israeli women at a Tel Aviv cafe on Friday. Palestinians identified the bomber as Mousa Abdel-Qader Ghneimat. [HO Israeli Army, Reuters] </CLARI-ITEM CAPTION></TABLE> </CLARI-ITEM PHOTO-TABLE> <CLARI-ITEM STORY> <P> HEBRON, West Bank (Reuter) - A day after a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, fierce Israeli-Arab clashes flared in the West Bank town of Hebron Saturday and the militant Hamas group threatened more attacks against the Jewish state.</P> <P> Israeli soldiers in Hebron fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and teargas at hundreds of Arab protesters who threw gasoline bombs and rocks.</P> <P> Hospital officials said at least 20 Palestinians were shot and another 80 treated for other injuries or teargas inhalation in some of the most serious Israeli-Palestinian violence in months. One protester lost an eye.</P> <P> During the Hebron protests, Arab youths shouted ``With souls and blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Mousa'' -- invoking the name of Mousa Abdel-Qader Ghneimat, a West Bank resident identified by Palestinian sources as Tel Aviv's suicide bomber.</P> <P> Yousef Sharawi, director of Alia Hospital, said it was not yet clear how many of the gunshot wounds were caused by live bullets, which an Israeli military spokesman told Reuters that troops fired on several occasions ``when their lives were in danger.''</P> <P> The Israeli army said four soldiers and three paramilitary border policemen were lightly injured by rocks in the second day of street battles along what has become a battle line dividing the Palestinian- and Israeli-controlled sections of the city.</P> <P> Israeli-Palestinian tension has been high since right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent bulldozers last Tuesday to a hill between Jerusalem and Bethlehem to begin a new Jewish settlement in territory occupied by Israel.</P> <P> ``The persistence of the Zionists to build the dirty settlement on Jabal Abu Ghneim will compel us to continue our attacks, striking against the Zionists,'' said a statement faxed to an international news agency by Hamas' military wing.</P> <P> Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with the settlement at the site Israel calls Har Homa despite Friday's Tel Aviv cafe bombing that killed three Israeli women.</P> <P> ``We do not need much effort to prove our truthfulness and seriousness of our threats ... to teach the arrogant Netanyahu a lesson he will not forget for days and years,'' said the statement signed ``Iz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas Movement Military Branch, Jerusalem - Occupied Palestine.''</P> <P> Security forces threw protective rings around Israeli cities which planned to go ahead with street carnivals for Purim holiday Sunday in spite of the deadly attack and the new threats.</P> <P> Police said roadblocks would go up at entrances to cities in Israel's heavily populated central region. Thousands of officers and civilian volunteers would patrol the streets.</P> <P> The mayors of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ramat Gan said on Israel Radio they had not cancelled plans for Purim street carnivals Sunday because doing so would be giving in to terrorism.</P> <P> ``But I will understand if parents want to keep their children home,'' Ramat Gan mayor Zvi Bar said.</P> <P> The festival celebrates the Jews' delivery from genocide in ancient Persia.</P> <P> Tel Aviv planned a carnival on Dizengoff street, where suicide bombers struck a year ago during the Purim holiday, killing 13 people.</P> <P> But for some families, there was little joy. The three women killed in Friday's blast were to be buried Sunday.</P> <P> An anonymous caller to Israeli police Friday said Hamas claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. The faxed statement Saturday referred to the bombing as ``a wonderful martyrdom operation.''</P> <P> In Muscat, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat criticized the United States for vetoing Friday a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Israel halt the housing project.</P> <P> It was the second veto the United States has cast in two weeks to kill a Security Council resolution demanding that Israel shelve the East Jerusalem settlement.</P> <P> Israel's widely condemned plan to build 6,500 homes for Jews would add another link to an Israeli chain of apartment blocks cutting off East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.</P> <P> In Gaza, a Hamas source said Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, a leader of a military wing of the group was arrested by Palestinian security forces Friday.</P> <P> Makadmeh, released from jail by Arafat last week, told a rally Friday after the suicide attack during the Jewish costume holiday of Purim that only bombs could stop Israel's settlement drive.</P> <P> Netanyahu had accused Arafat of tacitly giving Hamas a ``green light'' to strike against the Jewish state by freeing Makadmeh and other militants arrested last year after suicide bombers killed 59 people in Israel.</P> <P> Israel clamped a closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and sealed the home of the suicide bomber in the Israeli-controlled West Bank village of Sourif.</P> <P> Israel radio said Ghneimat had worked as a waiter in Tel Aviv restaurants and spent four years in an Israeli jail for Hamas-related activities.</P> <P> The army said it had arrested 13 Sourif residents and four people from the village of Nuva in the Hebron area as part of the investigation of the Tel Aviv bombing.</P> <P> Israeli authorities Saturday said the baby girl wounded in the cafe lost her mother in the blast. Anat Rosen-Vinter, 31, the infant's mother, was identified as one of the three women killed in the attack.</P> <P> Television pictures broadcast around the world showed an Israeli policewoman cradling the baby, dressed in a tattered clown costume, and looking frantically for the parents. The infant was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover.</P> </CLARI-ITEM STORY> <BR CLEAR=all> <CLARI-ITEM TRAILER> <HR> <A HREF='0322bottom.html...@web.clari.net' CLARI-XFN='xws/ar/0322bottom.html'> <IMG SRC='0322bottom.gif...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/ar/0322bottom.gif' WIDTH=137 HEIGHT=47 BORDER=0 ALT='bottom [Mar 22]'></A> <A HREF='0322extra3.html...@web.clari.net' CLARI-XFN='xws/ao/0322extra3.html'> <IMG SRC='0322extra3.gif...@web.clari.net?part=2' CLARI-XFN='xws/ao/0322extra3.gif' BORDER=0 ALT='Icon [Mar 22]'></A> </CLARI-ITEM TRAILER>
