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Israeli troops and their armored vehicles wait to enter Bethlehem on Tuesday.
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Saturday for an immediate with
drawal from Palestinian areas.
But Powell noted that the
Israeli’leader has yet to set a
timetable for a pullback and Bush
has not demanded one. “The pres
ident doesn’t give orders to a sov
ereign prime minister of another
country,” Powell said on NBC’s
“Meet the Press.”
On another front, there were
exchanges of fire between
Lebanese guerrillas and the
Israeli military Sunday. Six Israeli
soldiers were wounded, the mili
tary said.
In a phone conversation late
Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres asked Powell to in
tervene with Lebanon and Syria
to calm the border. They also dis
cussed possibilities for a cease-fire
between Israel and the
Palestinians, according to a state
ment from Peres’office.
At the beginning of the weekly
Cabinet meeting Sunday, Sharon
defended the offensive, calling it
“a war for our homes.”
“We have no interest in drag
ging it out, but we have to do the
job,” Sharon told Israel TV.
With international pressure
mounting and the U.N. Security
Council scheduling consultations
on the crisis later Sunday, there
were hints of friction between the
Israeli government and its mili
tary command. Officers sought
more time for the West Bank mili
tary operation, but Cabinet minis
ters talked of bringing it to an end.
Israeli troops have taken over
most Palestinian population cen
ters in the West Bank in their 10
day-old offensive, Israel’s biggest
in two decades. But the fighters in
Jenin and Nablus have prevented
the Israelis from taking full con
trol of the cities and conducting
house-to-house searches for mili
tants, as has been the case else
where in the West Bank.
Powell said both sides would
have to do more to end the fighting.
“Until the violence goes down
at least to a level where you can
see that both sides are acting in a
responsible way and trying to co
operate in a cease-fire, you’re not
going to get to a peace agreement,”
Powell said.
He said he would meet with
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
“if circumstances permit” — de
pending on security, access and
the meeting agenda.
Palestinians said gunmen held
Israeli troops at bay on the edge of
the Old City in Nablus, with its
winding, dusty alleys and close
packed buildings, ideal locations
for snipers. Israel called in attack
helicopters to fight the entrenched
gunmen.
Israeli tanks were shelling tar
gets in Nablus on Sunday after
noon, witnesses said. At least 14
Palestinians were killed during
the day’s fighting, Palestinians
said.
Nablus Governor Mahmoud
Aloul said there were dead bodies
in an old mosque and 65 of the
wounded were receiving treat
ment there because ambulances
could not get in.
Israel has barred reporters
from Nablus and other areas
where the military is operating in
the West Bank, though the mea
sure has not been enforced con
sistently.
There was also fierce fighting
in the Jenin refugee camp, 25
miles north of Nablus, where the
militant Hamas group said one of
its local leaders, Ashraf Abu A1
Haijga, was killed in a gunfight
with the Israelis.
Since the Israeli incursion be
gan March 29, more than 95
Palestinians have been killed in
West Bank fighting, along with
more than 10 Israeli soldiers. Also,
1,413 Palestinians have been de
tained, including 361 who were on
Israel’s wanted lists, and more than
1,400 rifles have been confiscated,
the military said in a statement.
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