JERUSALEM: ISRAELI PM SHARON ACCUSES NEW PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP OF DOING NOTHING TO CURB ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS AND THREATENS STRONGER MILITARY ACTION AGAINST MILITANTS

Record ID: 400145

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI PM SHARON ACCUSES NEW PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP OF DOING NOTHING TO CURB ATTACKS ON ISRAELIS AND THREATENS STRONGER MILITARY ACTION AGAINST MILITANTS
  • Date: 16th January 2005
  • Summary: (U3) JERUSALEM (JANUARY 16, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. PAN: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON ENTERING CABINET MEETING 0.12 2. PAN; ISRAEL'S FOREIGN MINISTER SILVAN SHALOM ARRIVING AT MEETING 0.19 3. SHARON OPENING MEETING 0.29 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) SHARON SAYING: "We see that the Palestinian leadership has not yet begun any operation t
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA4YWJHZSZ1HQLBGZ2RILK0YKDR
  • Story Text: Sharon threatens stronger action against militants
    and accused the new Palestinian leadership of doing nothing
    to curb attacks on Israelis.


    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during a cabinet
    meeting on Sunday (January 16) accused the new Palestinian
    leadership of doing nothing to curb attacks on Israelis and
    threatened stronger military action against militants.

    "We see that the Palestinian leadership has not yet
    begun any operation to stop the terror. ," Sharon told his
    cabinet, two days after cutting off all ties with
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "The army and security
    apparatus have been instructed to increase the operations
    to bring a stop to terror and they will do so without
    restrictions."
    Israel cut contacts with the Palestinian Authority
    after militants killed six Israelis in an attack on a
    crossing point to the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

    Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians, several of
    them gunmen, in confrontations in Gaza on Saturday.

    Palestinian officials said Abbas, inaugurated on
    Saturday as Yasser Arafat's successor as president, would
    go to Gaza this week for new talks with fighters waging a
    4-year-old armed struggle that he would like to end.

    Abbas has said he wants to co-opt rather than rein in
    militants, drawing criticism from Israel which has urged
    him to to take steps to prevent mortar bomb and rocket
    attacks on Jewish settlements in Gaza and towns in southern
    Israel.

    Israel has said that if attacks stop, it would be ready
    to coordinate with the Palestinians on aspects of its plan
    to evacuate troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip before
    the end of the year.



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