Israel Reduces Its Operation in the West Bank to Help a Fragile Truce

Birmingham Post › December 05, 2006

Linked as:

Summary

In an effort to shore up a shaky truce in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials yesterday said they were reducing their operations in the West Bank and had made it more difficult for field commanders to order arrest raids there.

Although the ceasefire agreement does not yet include the West Bank, Gaza militants have bristled in recent days at the army's continuing arrests of militants there and threatened a wave of reprisal attacks.

See the full content of this document

Extract

Israel Reduces Its Operation in the West Bank to Help a Fragile Truce

Senior military officials yesterday said they had decided to reduce the number of ope...

See the full content of this document