Explosion near Tel Aviv, Israel to try Greek Orthodox religious leader
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/22/2002

As a large explosion took place on Sunday morning in Yavni settlement near Tel Aviv, targeting a train passengers station and resulted in wounding one worker, the Israeli forces opened fire at Yahya Shehada ( 35 year old) and carried out a campaign of arrest targeted scores of villages and cities of Aseer, Rojin, Nablus, Hebron and Khan Younis.

Palestinian sources said the Israeli authorities is studying the possibility of trying Greek Orthodox Archamandrite Atallah Hanna because of his calls against occupation and in support of the legitimate Palestinian resistance.

Hanna was fired recently from his post for his political position.

Meantime, the Israeli President Moshe Katsav rejected a pullout from any of the Israeli settlements. Replying to a question on the possibility of pullout, Katsav said that any step such as by Israel would strengthen the idea that the Palestinian operations against Israeli targets can achieve in political results.

While the Israeli mini cabinet decided to found 16 new settlements in the occupied territories of 1948, the Israeli army chief of staff called for the deportation of families and relatives of the executors of "suicide operations" to Gaza or even into outside the Palestinian territories.

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