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An Israeli soldier sits in an armoured personnel carrier in front of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Monday. -- Reuters
Troops accompanied by a member of the Shin Beth internal security agency arrested Ahmed Moghrabi, 28, during house-to-house searches in the refugee camp of Dheisheh, in the southwest of the town. The army, which invaded the town overnight as part of increased operations across the West Bank, also seized the sister of Ayad al-Ahras, a young woman who blew herself up in a west Jerusalem supermarket on March 2, killing two. Meanwhile, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erakat, said today that Yasser Arafat feared a renewed occupation of the West Bank city of Ramallah as Israeli forces mounted more raids in search of militants, "Chairman Arafat is expressing concern that Israel is going to invade Ramallah today," Mr. Erakat told reporters here. He gave no further details, but witnesses said three Israeli tanks and several jeeps had made an incursion into El Bireh, the eastern part of Ramallah. There were no reports of firing. In another development, the leaders of the six Gulf Arab States renounced all forms of violence but refrained from publicly denouncing Palestinian suicide bombings in a bid to appease "popular sentiment", diplomats said today. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)'s fourth consultative summit in the Red Sea city of Jeddah broke up yesterday with leaders renouncing all forms of violence and calling for peace in West Asia based on the Saudi-proposed Arab plan. But when asked whether that included Palestinian suicide bombers, the GCC secretary-general, Abdul Rahman al-Attiya, said: "The legality of resisting occupation is recognised truly by all international laws." "The GCC states' rejection of all forms of violence is not a rejection by conviction," said one Arab Ambassador based in Riyadh. "It comes as a result of international pressure, especially after the September 11 attacks on the United States, and as a condition to reduce tension and get the peace process moving," the Ambassador told AFP. "Gulf countries do not want to publicly denounce suicide bombings because the overwhelming majority of their people support such operations as the only means of resistance available to Palestinians," the Ambassador said. Israel has been hit by around 50 suicide bombers in the 20 months of the current Palestinian uprising or intifada, with the kamikazes becoming the most effective weapon in the Palestinian arsenal. — AFP
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