The New York Times · New York, New York · 25 October 2001

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Israelis Storm Village in the West Bank

Attack Comes After Bush Urged Withdrawal; at Least 5 Are Killed

By JAMES BENNET

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HALAMISH JUNCTION, West Bank, Oct. 24 — Hours after President Bush appealed for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territory, Israeli troops stormed into another West Bank village early this morning, killing at least 5 Palestinians and arresting 11 more, including two men the Israelis said helped kill a cabinet minister last week.

Palestinian leaders accused the Israeli government of inventing a link to the minister’s killing to cover up what they called a “massacre” of not 5 but at least 10 people in the village. Israeli troops did not permit journalists, Palestinian ambulances, or the Red Cross into the village today, saying the military operation was still under way. There were no Israeli casualties.

The raid on the Palestinian town, Beit Rima, brought to seven the number of villages and cities in which Israeli troops have captured positions in an operation begun a week ago, after the killing of the tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi, Israel’s senior right-wing leader. “We were terrified,” said Abdul Salam Rimawi, a resident of the village, by telephone from his home tonight.

“It was a horrible situation, where you hear bullets coming from all directions.” Mr. Rimawi, a journalist, said he and his brother, Jamal, covered their children with their bodies. After pounding on the door of his house, soldiers with blackened faces took away Jamal at gunpoint, Mr. Rimawi said.

He said that his brother was a nurse in Jerusalem and that he was baffled by his arrest. Mr. Rimawi said that late tonight tanks were still rumbling through the village, and helicopters were circling overhead.

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