Military Raids Are Best Path to Security, Israelis Say
With Israeli troops regularly invading Palestinian areas, the notion of cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, a foundation of the 1993 Oslo accords, has all but been abandoned. But it is precisely such cooperation that Mr. Tenet will try to revive through a consolidation of the Palestinian security agencies intended to make them more effective in blocking violence against Israel.
But there were few signs of conciliation on the ground, where Israeli forces continued their search-and-arrest operation in Nablus.
In the Balata refugee camp, on the southern outskirts of the city, Palestinians reported that Israeli troops blew up the family home of Mahmoud Titi, the local commander of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, who was killed last month by Israeli tank shells. The army said the house held a large explosives lab that contained chemicals, hundreds of pipe bombs, a dozen gas-canister bombs and an antitank charge. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades have claimed responsibility for several suicide bombings and shooting attacks in Israel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/international/middleeast/03ISRA.html
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