1. Husseini, the Palestinian official, said the first army withdrawals would take place in and around Jenin, the northernmost city in the West Bank. 2. Palestinian and Israeli teams have held talks this week in Eilat on army withdrawals in the West Bank and Palestinian elections, making little visible progress. 3. Peres had suspended contacts with the Palestinians and delayed an army withdrawal from most of Hebron after the suicide attacks, demanding that Arafat crack down on Islamic militants. 4. Pinhas Wallerstein, a settler leader in the West Bank, warned that the planned Israeli army withdrawals will bring more violence. 5. The camp is in a zone where Israel is still responsible for security, but the opposition asserts that army withdrawals have made it harder to stop terrorism. 6. Peres said Palestinian elections and Israeli army withdrawal from Palestinian population centers in the West Bank would be carried out this year. 7. Domb said he and other settlers were told that during the first three months of army withdrawal, Israelis would be barred from driving through Palestinian towns. 8. Health Minister Efraim Sneh said he did not believe a total army withdrawal could be carried out now. 9. In a related development, rabbis living in Jewish settlements in the West Bank on Friday called for nonviolent resistance to an army withdrawal in the area. 10. Jenin, in the northern West Bank, has been mentioned as a possible first or test site for an army withdrawal in the West Bank. |
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