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| IDF blockades Tulkarm camp... |
| 2002-05-05 |
| IDF troops blockaded the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank early Saturday morning after receiving information of plans to dispatch a suicide bomber from the camp to Israel. Palestinian residents said dozens of tanks and armoured personnel carriers cordoned off the city, surrounded the refugee camp and carried out searches inside. Around 10 A.M., Palestinian sources reported that the IDF forces were leaving. At this point, we should begin a chorus asking what the "UN authorities" in charge of the refugee camp have been doing, lo, these many years. Why should the IDF have to do the work? The army has raided Tul Karm and the nearby city of Qalqiliyah several times in operations it says were to capture suicide bombers, since withdrawing from most West Bank cities earlier this month. They've gotta get those boomers rolling again. Otherwise it might start seeming like peace... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |