The Mobile Register · Mobile, AL · 28 October 2005

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Israeli missile aimed at Jihad kills 7 people

Ariel Sharon shuns Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, signaling failed peacemaking

By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer

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JERUSALEM — Israel killed seven Palestinians in a missile strike Thursday against Islamic Jihad, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would not meet with the Palestinian leader until he cracks down on armed groups — a double-edged Israeli response to the latest suicide bombing.

Sharon threatened a "broad and relentless" offensive against Palestinian militants, including mass arrests and airstrikes, but security officials said Israel would stop short of a large-scale military operation.

Sharon's decision to shun Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was the clearest signal yet that efforts to revive peacemaking after Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last month have run aground. Abbas has said he cannot and will not confront militants, fearing civil war, but it's unlikely progress can be made unless the two leaders meet.

The international community has been pressing for a quick Israeli-Palestinian agreement on new security arrangements for Gaza's borders, and a continued deadlock over such issues will prevent the economic recovery of impoverished Gaza. That, in turn, could hurt Abbas' chances in parliamentary elections in January.

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Date confirmed on the page (folio-verified). Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “Mobile Register”.

Context added by this archive

Folio reads 'Friday, October 28, 2005 MOBILE REGISTER 21A'; 28 Oct 2005 was a Friday, matching Maria's label. Yair Golan appears late in the story: 'West Bank commander Brig. Gen. Yair Golan said Izzedine, considered as a political leader, was arrested because he had ties to Islamic Jihad's military wing' — i.e.

Golan on the record justifying the arrest of a man the paper itself calls a political leader. The arrested man is named earlier as Abdel Halim Izzedine, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin.

Photo caption: 'Two Palestinians comfort each other at the Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on Thursday after an Israeli missile attack killed seven in the nearby Jebaliya refugee camp.

The Islamic Jihad on Wednesday carried out its fourth suicide attack against Israel since Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas negotiated a truce deal with Palestinian groups in February.' (HATEM MOUSSA/Associated Press). Headline photograph credit shows a Palestinian photographer.

Excerpt stops at a complete sentence partway down column one; the remaining columns cover the Jabaliya strike, Islamic Jihad's reply and the Jenin arrests.

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