From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Palestine: Violence overshadows Arafat protest marches - Ananova Ananova : Violence overshadows Arafat protest marches =============================== Violence erupted as thousands of Palestinians staged marches in support of Yasser Arafat. The marches went ahead in Ramallah and Gaza City as Palestinian gunmen traded fire with Israeli soldiers whose tank got stuck on a road in the West Bank town. Twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were wounded in the gunbattle that broke out shortly after the tank became stuck on a narrow residential road in Ramallah. The incident occurred well away from Arafat's office, which was encircled by Israeli forces for a third day. Several hundred Palestinian journalists and academics who support Arafat's Fatah movement marched to the Palestinian broadcasting centre destroyed in an Israeli explosion a day earlier. In Gaza City, several thousand supporters, most of them Fatah members, marched to Arafat's seaside compound, though the Palestinian leader hasn't been able to work there in nearly two months. Several Israeli newspapers have speculated on whether Arafat might resign or flee the Palestinian territories, but Arafat spokesman Nabil Aburdeneh dismissed the reports. "The Israeli government is living with illusions, and are trying to transfer these illusions to the Palestinian people," Aburdeneh said. "The Israelis are using psychological warfare against the Palestinians by putting Arafat under such a humiliating siege." Story filed: 17:25 Sunday 20th January 2002 _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
