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>JN July 20, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 123
Netanya Bomb was Criminal, Not Terrorist
By VOA News
Israeli police said a car bomb blast in the coastal city of Netanya Thursday, which injured one or two people, was of a criminal nature, and not a Palestinian terror attack.
The police statement came within minutes of the explosion in Netanya, which has been hit by Palestinian bombers in the past.
Extremist Settlers Kill Three West Bank Palestinians
By VOA News
Extremist Israeli settlers have shot and killed three Palestinians, including an infant near the West Bank city of Hebron. The assailants fired at a vehicle in which the victims were traveling, killing the three and wounding four other Palestinians.
Extremist settlers calling themselves the "Road Safety Group" claimed responsibility for the attack. Palestinian officials say Israel is fully responsible for the killings. The officials say the international community must act to stop Israeli aggression. The Israeli settlers' council also condemned the shooting.
On Thursday in Rome, foreign ministers from the Group of Eight called for sending neutral monitors to the Middle East to help implement the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian truce. Palestinian leaders welcomed the statement, while Israel reiterated its opposition to monitors.
The ministers described the situation in the Middle East as alarming, and have made it one of the top items on the summit's agenda.
Diplomats in Genoa said the decision by the foreign ministers to release a separate statement on the Middle East reflects their increasing concern that the situation in the region may spiral out of control.
The diplomats said the foreign ministers were especially worried about an Israeli decision to strengthen its forces in the West Bank. One Italian diplomat describes that move as a provocation against the Palestinians.
The leaders of the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia will begin their wide-ranging summit Friday. In Genoa, massive security measures have been put into effect to guard them from a terrorist attack or violence from tens-of-thousands of protesters who have flocked into town.
Israeli Arabs Arrested on Conspiracy to Perpetrate Attack
By IsraelNationalNews.com
GSS (General Security Service "Shin/Bet) agents several weeks ago arrested four Um el-Fahm residents on suspicion of conspiring to perpetrate terrorist attacks inside Green Line Israel. The four are standing trial in a Haifa court.
The four suspects in custody are all Israeli citizens. The gag order on publication of the arrests was lifted Thursday permitting the release of information.
The four were planning to smuggle a terrorist inside Israel with a bomb to enable him to carry out an attack. The suspects also face charges of planning to carry out attacks on their own, monitoring and passing on information pertaining to IDF troop movements, and involvement in other terrorist-related activities. They were also working to smuggle bomb components from Green Line Israel to areas under Palestinian control.
Nile River Blamed for Flooding Ancient Cities
By VOA News
A British scientific journal says it was flooding of the Nile River, not earthquakes, that submerged two ancient cities off of Egypt's Mediterranean coast in the eighth century.
A study in Nature says the inundated cities of Canopus and Herakleion were built on the Nile river delta on soft ground easily washed away. Researchers involved in the study say flooding is the most likely because of the cities' disappearance.
Ruins of the ancient Egyptian cities were recently discovered beneath seven meters of water in the Bay of Abu Qir after disappearing more than 1,000 years ago. The cities thrived during Greek and Byzantine times.
Possible Identification of Biblical Gath
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Excavations, which were renewed on July 15, not far from Ashkelon, are continuing to shed new light on the history and culture of the Philistines, arch-enemies of the Jewish people in biblical times.
A group of archaeologists and volunteers led by Dr. Aren Maeir, of the Institute of Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, and by Prof. Carl Ehrlich, of York University in Toronto, have tentatively identified Tel As-Saffi as Gath, home to Goliath and King Achish.
The site contains extremely well-preserved remains, which tend to coincide with the biblical description of Gath as an important city in the early stages of the first Jewish monarchy, which suffered massive destruction around 800 BCE. It was a settled area from as early as the fifth millennium BCE until 1948, when an Arab village there was abandoned.
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