2 killed in raids in West Bank

Hamas refuses cease-fire renewal

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JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant were killed yesterday in separate army raids in the West Bank, and Hamas warned after the killing of one of its operatives Tuesday that it would not renew a cease-fire due to expire at the end of the year.

More than a week of violence has severely shaken the truce and dimmed hopes for a revival of peace efforts after Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in September. Israeli raids and airstrikes have killed 15 Palestinians — militants as well as civilians — after a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed five Israelis.

The militant Islamic Jihad group said the bombing was revenge for Israel's killing of one of its West Bank commanders. A 20-year-old soldier fatally shot yesterday was the first Israeli serviceman killed in action since the Gaza withdrawal.

Staff Sergeant Yonatan Evron was killed during the arrest of a Hamas militant at a house in the village of Marka in the northern West Bank, the army said. Brigadier General Yair Golan, commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank, said that after the militant was taken into custody, a gunman opened fire at troops surrounding the house, killing the soldier.

In another army raid near Jenin in the town of Kabatiya, soldiers exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen, killing Raafat Turkman, 22, of the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The army said troops had shot three gunmen who fired on them.

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LABEL ORDER: Maria's note for slide 76-style ordering lists slide 65 as 'The Patriot News July 14 2005' then 'The Boston Globe Nov 3 2005', but image s065_1 is the BOSTON GLOBE and s065_2 is the Patriot-News piece. The images are in the reverse order from the label.

Masthead line reads 'THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2005 THE BOSTON GLOBE'; 3 Nov 2005 was a Thursday, so the date is verified. IMPORTANT WIRE-COPY FINDING: this is Joel Greenberg's Chicago Tribune dispatch, the same copy as s062_2, but the Globe re-edited it. Where the Tribune printed 'Brig. Gen.

Yair Golan' the Globe prints 'Brigadier General Yair Golan'; 'Qabatiyeh' becomes 'Kabatiya'; 'Rafat Turkman' becomes 'Raafat Turkman'; 'Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades' gains an apostrophe, 'Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades'; 'air strikes' becomes 'airstrikes'; 'on Wednesday' becomes 'yesterday'; and the Globe recasts the soldier's death to lead with his age.

Nothing in the Palestinian spokesman's quote changes. Photo caption: 'Palestinian mourners carried the body of Fawzie Abo al Qarea, a top Hamas operative, during his funeral yesterday in the refugee camp of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. He was killed Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike.' (ALI ALI/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY).

Most of the page is taken up by a 'SUMMER BRITE' toothpaste advertisement, which is not part of the article.

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"2 killed in raids in West Bank," The Boston Globe, 3 November 2005. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2005-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2005-026