71.   In Ramallah, Palestinian security officials said soldiers threw grenades Friday near the building to which Arafat has been confined since the start of the Israeli offensive.

72.   In yet another interview, with the Arab satellite television channel Al-Jazeera, Arafat was defiant in the face of the Israeli offensive.

73.   Israeli military analysts wrote that incursions are part of an Israeli offensive against militant groups.

74.   It also noted a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in France and other countries following the recent Israeli offensive in Palestinian areas that has outraged Arabs around the world.

75.   It was a series of suicide bombings in Israel that triggered the recent Israeli military offensive on the West Bank.

76.   Kinkel urged them to use their influence on the guerrillas to end the rocket attacks on northern Israel that provoked the Israeli offensive, now in its eighth day.

77.   Last month, the Jenin refugee camp was the scene of the heaviest fighting of the Israeli offensive.

78.   Meanwhile, Arafat spoke by phone Friday with foreign leaders and with the media, calling for an end to the Israeli military offensive.

79.   Moroccans staged a massive protest in the capital, Rabat, on Sunday in support of Palestinians facing an Israeli offensive.

80.   Moscow has responded to the latest Israeli offensive on the West Bank with a stream of diplomatic statements and sent its envoy Andrei Vdovin to the region.