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Middle East
Palestinians arrest ceasefire violators
2003-07-01
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said on Tuesday Palestinian security forces arrested militants who killed a Bulgarian road worker in a West Bank shooting on Monday that violated a ceasefire. ''Those who did it were arrested,'' Arafat told reporters.
What about those who ordered it, Yasser?
And how long were they detained?
He did not say how many members of a cell of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack near the West Bank city of Jenin, were detained.
Detained until nobody's looking.
The brigades belong to Arafat's Fatah faction but lack a central command and are divided over suspending attacks on Israelis in a 33-month-old Palestinian uprising for statehood. In a separate attack on Tuesday, a Palestinian armed with a pistol opened fire at a military roadblock near the West Bank city of Tulkarm and was shot dead by soldiers, an army spokesman said.
BANG "Die, zionist dog!" BANGBANGBANGBANG "Ouch!"
There were no other casualties or any immediate claim of responsibility.
On Sunday, Fatah, along with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups, declared a temporary truce amid heavy U.S. diplomatic pressure on the Palestinian Authority to rein in militants under a new Middle East peace plan.
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