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| Middle East |
| IDF continuing cleanup |
| 2002-05-16 |
| Armoured vehicles moved into Ramallah for the first time since lifting the month-long siege on Arafat's offices there on May 2, entering a civilian building and killing Mohammed Ghanam, a policeman on Israel's wanted list. Three members of Arafat's elite Force 17 guards were also arrested. Witnesses reported an explosion inside the building as the Israelis withdrew. "Dammit, Bernstein! I told you not to smoke in their kitchen!" Later Israeli special forces snatched Jordanian passport holder Ahmed Dhibi, 27, from his supermarket workplace in Ramallah. "Gimme a pound of veal and some of those plums. And is your RDX fresh today?" In the central Gaza Strip an unarmed Palestinian civilian was killed near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom. An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers opened fire after a mortar round fired by Palestinians struck near the settlement without causing damage. Does "unarmed" mean he'd expended all his ammunition? In the southern Gaza Strip a Palestinian man was wounded by machine-gun fire from an Israeli helicopter in Khan Yunis. Israeli forces also staged a dawn raid on a village near Nablus, imposing a curfew and rounding up at least 20 residents. The army said it had arrested a Palestinian who had planted a bomb near a checkpoint north of Jerusalem. "The bomb was found and defused," a statement said. "Okay, Achmed, is that your bomb?" "No! Not my bomb! Mine's green!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |