The New York Times · New York, New York · 2 April 2002

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ISRAELIS BROADEN WEST BANK RAIDS AS ARABS PROTEST

No Sign of Any Peace Talk Efforts — Palestinians Strike Again

By JOHN KIFNER with JAMES BENNET

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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Tuesday, April 2 — Israeli soldiers and tanks poured into the West Bank on Monday as Palestinians continued attacks and as angry demonstrations spread across the Arab world against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s all-out campaign against the Palestinians.

Early this morning, the Israeli Army attacked the headquarters of Jibril Rajoub, the powerful Palestinian security chief in the West Bank, who had been a crucial ally of the United States after the 1993 Oslo peace talks, and jailed scores of Islamic militants. The building was set on fire.

In the West Bank, the army moved in force on Monday night into Bethlehem and into Tulkarm to the north with scores of tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored bulldozers backed by infantry. Troops in Qalqilya reinforced their positions and began house to house searches.

Armored vehicles had already been stationed in Beit Jala, the nearby, largely Christian hilltop village within range of the Jewish district of Gilo. But for all of Israel’s military might, Palestinians struck again Monday, as they have in the past few days in Netanya, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

A sniper, firing from Bethlehem, killed an Israeli in Har Homa, a housing development built on land Israel conquered in 1967. A bomber — the sixth in as many days — blew up his car near a junction that divides East and West Jerusalem, killing the policeman who stopped him for a check. During the day, at least 15 Israeli soldiers were wounded in fighting.

In all, it was another tense, ugly day that left diplomats in despair. There was no sign of Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, who had been dispatched as the American intermediary. As the mood hardened, 11 Arabs, most of them pulled from jail cells and accused of “collaborating” with Israel, were brutally killed by Palestinians in three separate incidents on the West Bank.

The Israeli Army said tonight that it had rounded up more than 700 people in Ramallah since Friday. The streets here, where Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was besieged in two rooms of his wrecked headquarters for a fourth day, are eerily empty. Iron gates shutter every shop. Residents are running out of food and water.

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Date check: The full masthead folio is legible: “VOL. CLI .. No. 52,076” / “Copyright © 2002 The New York Times” / “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2002” / “$1 beyond the greater New York metropolitan area.” / “75 CENTS”. Both the paper and the date match the slide label exactly, and April 2, 2002 was a Tuesday.

The story’s own dateline also reads “RAMALLAH, West Bank, Tuesday, April 2”.

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