Fort Worth Star-Telegram · Fort Worth, Texas · 21 July 2001
CP-2001-005
In deepest incursion yet, Israeli forces raze Palestinian homes, police station
Jamie Tarabay, AP
Transcribed from the clipping
DEIR EL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli bulldozers flattened a police station and five homes Friday in the deepest foray into Palestinian territory since field commanders last week were given a free hand to carry out such retaliatory raids.
In Jerusalem, a pipe bomb exploded in a flowerbed on the promenade leading to the Jaffa Gate of the walled Old City, and two Polish tourists were slightly injured, police said… In the past seven days, there have been more than two dozen Israeli incursions into the West Bank and Gaza Strip in which Israeli troops razed 60 homes and hundreds of acres of farmland, Palestinian police said.
Four Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in the raids. Palestinians accused Israel of systematically slicing away at the Palestinian areas. “We might now be witnessing the gradual undoing of the peace process,” said Palestinian commentator Ghassan Khatib.
Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said he had no intention of retaking land handed to the Palestinians in interim peace accords. He said the incursions are short-term and aimed at achieving security goals. The army would not say how many raids it has carried out.
A correction
Resolved. The microfilm caption gave 1988-07-21. The clipping names Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Defense Minister and refers to land handed to the Palestinians in interim peace accords, neither of which was true in 1988. Dated here to 2001-07-21.
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"In deepest incursion yet, Israeli forces raze Palestinian homes, police station," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2001, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2001-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2001-005
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