31.   The Israeli accusations surfaced one day after Arafat emerged from a month-long Israeli siege of his Ramallah office complex in the West Bank.

32.   The Israeli accusations surfaced one day after Arafat emerged from a month-long Israeli siege of his Ramallah office complex.

33.   The Iranian-backed Hezbollah denied Wednesday it had bases or guerrillas outside Lebanon, despite a spate of Israeli accusations that it is operating abroad.