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| Paleostinians cancel cabinet meeting, blaming raid |
| 2002-06-10 |
| The Palestinian Authority cancelled the first meeting of its newly reshuffled cabinet scheduled for Monday, citing a fresh IDF raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah as the reason for the decision. "There won't be a cabinet meeting tonight because of Israeli reoccupation of Ramallah," Jibril Rajoub, Palestinian West Bank security chief, told Reuters. He did not say when the meeting, which was to have convened in Ramallah, would take place. The Palestinian Authority said earlier in the day that it would be forced to cancel the meeting if Israel did not end the raid. "If they [Israel] stay in Ramallah it will be impossible to convene the first meeting of the new cabinet," said PA Minister Nabil Sha'ath. Sha'ath slammed the new incursion as an effort "to sabotage any progress at the political and the security level." Gosh, we hope nobody got so mad he exploded... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |