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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Palestinians will deploy
hundreds of police officers along the Gaza-Israel frontier in coming
days to prevent rocket fire and other attacks on Israeli towns, in
the first act of security cooperation with Israel under Palestinian
leader Mahmoud Abbas, officials said Thursday.
Abbas ordered the troop deployment after a meeting Wednesday
night between Israeli and Palestinian generals, convened in a
last-ditch effort to avert an Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
The meeting signaled that Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon are succeeding to defuse their first crisis, though the
situation remains highly volatile and renewed rocket fire by
Palestinian militants could trigger major violence. Only last week,
Sharon had announced he was boycotting the Palestinian leadership to
protest what Israel said was Abbas' lack of determination to rein in
militants.
Abbas has been holding talks with leaders of militant groups
in Gaza since Tuesday, and his aides said he was edging closer to a
truce deal with them. The militants say they are ready to halt
attacks, provided Israel stops military operations - a promise
Israel has refused to make.
In the security meeting late Wednesday, Palestinian generals
presented a plan for stopping rocket fire and infiltrations of
Palestinian militants into Israel.
"We told them (Israeli generals) that we are arranging
a plan to deploy the Palestinian security forces into both the
northern and southern parts of Gaza," Maj. Gen. Moussa Arafat,
a Palestinian security chief, told The Associated Press. "In
the first stage, it will be in the north, and then we will move into
the south."
Lt. Gen. Abdel Razek Majaide, the top Palestinian security
commander, told the Voice of Palestine Radio station that the forces
would fan out within two days.
Israeli officials said up to 1,000 Palestinian officers
would be deployed, perhaps as early as Thursday, and that Israel
accepted the plan. "We are facilitating it and coordinating it
(the plan), so it will go forward," an Israeli official said on
condition of anonymity. "We are waiting to see how effective
they will be."
Palestinian security officials have said in the past they
are reluctant to deploy officers in areas from which rockets are
launched, for fear the policemen will be targeted by Israeli troops.
Israel Army Radio said troops have been instructed to ensure
the safety of Palestinian security personnel in areas where rockets
are being fired.
Abbas had requested Wednesday's security meeting as the
Israeli Security Cabinet was weighing a military solution to the
ongoing rocket and mortar attacks.
The Security Cabinet, made up of senior ministers, agreed to
resume security contacts with the Palestinians, but also approved
tough military measures if the effort fails.
"Israel is prepared to cooperate with the Palestinians
on condition that there is no terrorism," Sharon said in a
meeting Wednesday with a top EU official. But he warned that Israel
is not prepared to accept the loss of life because of lack of
Palestinian cooperation, implying that if talks fail, Israel will
take action.
The decision defused rising tensions that appeared to be
leading toward an Israeli invasion. While giving Abbas some leeway,
Sharon had warned in recent days that he was losing patience.
Israel broke off contacts with Abbas' government last
Friday, after an attack killed six Israeli civilians at a
Gaza-Israel crossing point. A Palestinian suicide bombing that
killed an Israeli security agent at a Gaza checkpoint on Tuesday
escalated tensions.
Dalia Itzik, a Cabinet minister from the dovish Labor Party,
said Israeli pressure led to Palestinian pledges for action.
"It's good that they're going to talk," she told Israel
Army Radio.
Abbas has been working to persuade Islamic militants to halt
their attacks on Israel in hopes of restarting long-stalled peace
negotiations. Participants in the cease-fire talks, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said Abbas had urged the militants to halt
the rocket fire.
Ziad Abu Amr, one of the negotiators, said Abbas was close
to reaching a deal. "The parties were never closer to an
agreement than they are now," he said Wednesday.
The militants have sent mixed messages, signaling readiness
for a halt in violence while continuing to carry out attacks in an
apparent attempt to bolster their leverage.
After meeting with Abbas on Wednesday, Mohammed Hindi, a
leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group, was noncommittal.
"We discussed all the items linked to the Palestinian
political arena including the subject of calming down the
situation," he said.
Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan, who is close to Abbas, said
restoring calm depends on Israel, not the Palestinians.
"We hope that the peace process will have chance and we
hope that Israel will initiate positive initiatives by stopping the
aggression and the killing," he told reporters.
Arafat, the Palestinian security commander, said Israel had
agreed to re-open some blocked roads in Gaza in exchange for the
Palestinian deployment.
The army reopened the Gaza checkpoint targeted in Tuesday's
suicide bombing to Palestinian traffic. Israeli military officials,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Rafah border crossing
into Egypt would be reopened on Friday.
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19-JAN-2005: A Palestinian mourner shouts as he and others carry the
body of Hamas militant Omar Tabach, 21, during his funeral in the
Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan.
19.2005. Tabach blew himself up near a major road used by Israeli
settlers, soldiers and Palestinain in the southern Gaza Strip on
Tuesday, killing an Israeli security agent and wounding seven other
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20-JAN-2005: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, also
known as Abu Mazen, center, prays at the Unknown Soldier tomb in Gaza
City during a ceremony on the first day of Eid al Adha Thursday Jan.
20, 2005. Muslims around the world started the celebrations of Eid
el-Adha on Thursday, a three day Muslim feast of sacrifice to
commemorate the prophet Abraham's offering of his son to God. Abbas,
who is under pressure to take action to prevent attacks against
Israel, arrived in Gaza on Tuesday for truce talks with Islamic
militants.(AP Photo/Adel Hana) [Photo copyright 2005 by AP]
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