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Israel Line
Friday, December 12, 2003
7 ISRAELIS INJURED IN JOSEPH'S TOMB ATTACK Seven Israelis were wounded, two of them critically, when a Palestinian gunman shot at their vehicle as they left Joseph's Tomb near Nablus before dawn today, THE JERUSALEM POST reported. The Israelis are Bratslav Hassidim who had defied military orders and bypassed Israel Defense Forces roadblocks to pray at the tomb located in an area of the West Bank off limits to Israelis. IDF paratroopers transported the injured to a nearby roadblock where they were treated by army medics and later transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital and the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Nine other uninjured passengers were detained by the army for questioning. The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade claimed "responsibility" for the shooting attack. Of the 7 hospitalized Breslav Hassidim, two have reportedly escaped from the hospital emergency room. IDF officials harshly criticized the worshippers' actions, pointing out that, "the last thing the army needs is to deploy large numbers of troops to extricate worshippers who did not coordinate with security forces prior to entering the site." In other news, IDF Central Commander Maj.Gen Moshe Kaplinsky signed an order on Thursday barring Israelis from entering Palestinian villages located in the West Bank's Area B (under Palestinian civil control and Israeli security control). SHARON EXPECTED TO REVEAL BREAKTHROUGH PLAN WITH PALESTINIANS Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been continuing consultations with ministers and Knesset members in advance of the announcement of a plan concerning the Palestinians expected to take place next Thursday at the conclusion of a conference in Herzliya, Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL, reported. Sharon met with cabinet ministers Danny Naveh and Tsachi Hanegbi on Thursday. He also met with Likud Knesset member Roni Bar-On and Labor's Ephriam Sneh. Deputy Minister Yitzhak Levy said that in a meeting between members of his National Religious Party and Sharon, the Prime Minister had hinted at a need to examine whether Jews could continue to live in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Sharon's bureau chief Dov Weisglass and the Prime Minister's foreign policy adviser Shalom Turjeman have returned to Israel from London after talks with a senior adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They updated the British officials on contacts with the Palestinians, issues regarding the security fence and the war on terror. They also passed on intelligence updates. EU LEADERS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER RISING ANTI-SEMITISM European Union leaders said today they were deeply concerned by rising anti-Semitism and condemned all anti-Semitic attacks against religious sites and individuals, HA'ARETZ reported. The leaders made the remarks in a statement during a two-day summit in Brussels, which was largely devoted to negotiations over the group's first-ever constitution. The EU expressed "deep concern at the increase in instances of anti-Semitic intolerance and strongly condemned all manifestations of anti-Semitism". Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who serves as EU president, said the statement by the group was "unequivocal." It was the first joint statement by EU leaders on the subject of anti-Semitism since the leaking of a EU-commissioned study, which found that most anti-Jewish attacks are carried out by Muslims. The findings of the study were shelved by the European body, despite calls for its publication by the study's authors, Jewish groups on the continent and Israel. The poll caused uproar in Israel and angered Jewish groups around the globe. Many Israelis viewed it as an example of what they perceive as anti-Israel bias in Europe. OTHER NEWS IN BRIEF
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