1. Already, at a base in the West Bank, troops have practiced storming the streets of a model Palestinian village. 2. And as you make your way through the chalky, terraced hillsides, you will hear the Muslim call to prayer from minarets in small Palestinian villages. 3. And they show the gutted remains of Palestinian villages in what is now Israel. 4. A dangerous firing line in the nearly month-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict runs here, and the residents of this predominately Christian Palestinian village are scared. 5. After a gun battle later in the week, Israel amassed a couple dozen tanks on the entrances to Palestinian villages near Bethlehem. 6. After the attack, helicopter gunships swept over the surrounding hills, dotted with Palestinian villages, as Israeli foot patrols searched for the gunmen. 7. Fierce fighting erupted in the evening on the outskirts of Jerusalem as Israel ordered combat helicopters into action to supress gunfire from a Palestinian village to the south. 8. Hundreds of settlers rampaged at several spots in the West Bank Friday, throwing stones at Palestinian cars and setting fields on fire near Palestinian villages. 9. In the first light of morning, the women of this Palestinian village descend stone steps worn smooth over the ages down terraced hillsides to an ancient spring. 10. Intense gun battles flared throughout the West Bank and Israel ordered tanks and helicopters into action on the outskirts of Jerusalem in response to gunfire from nearby Palestinian villages. |
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