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Middle East
IDF withdraws from 24 villes, moves into two more
2002-04-11
  • IDF troops pulled out of 24 Palestinian villages and invaded two new ones overnight, the IDF Spokesman said today. The army has withdrawn its forces from some 24 villages in the West Bank, including Kabatiya, Tubas, Taysir, Tamoun, Anabta and Salfit in the Nablus and Jenin areas and Yatta and Samoa, near Hebron. Troops remained in Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and Bethlehem, where the standoff with Palestinian gunmen around the Church of the Nativity continues at this time.

    Overnight, IDF forces moved into the town of Bir Zeit near Ramallah and the southern West Bank village of Dahariya. According to Israel Radio, some 200 Palestinian suspects, a number of them armed, turned themselves in to Israeli troops in these locations overnight.
    Wonder how much significance to attach to the 200 thugs surrendering rather than fighting it out? Wasn't the Jenin fight an inspiration to them to do the last man-last bullet thing? Or do they plan on fighting another day?
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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