Horrifying Israeli crime against three Palestinians, Zinni arranges Palestinian- Israeli security meeting
The US special envoy Anthony Zinni succeeded on Thursday evening just upon his arrival in Israel to arrange a high ranking security meeting between the Palestinian and Israeli sides. This meeting will be attended by him and officials representing the CIA.
Meantime, a horrifying crime committed by Israel against three Palestinian youths was disclosed upon his arrival.
It was unveiled in Gaza on Thursday one of the ugliest Israeli crimes during the Palestinian Intifada. The Palestinian side received on Thursday at dawn the bodies of three Palestinian youths who disappeared on December 29th, 2001 and on their distorted bodies traces of knife stabs, in addition to numerous cuttings and wounds on various parts of their bodies because of the use of sharp instruments. Their skulls were broken and then were shot by bullet fire.
According to the American statements, accompanied Zinni's coming back which was welcomed by the two sides, the mission of Zinni is just to resume his mission started more than one month ago to observe cease- fire between the Palestinian and the Israeli sides. Israel has declared several facilitation by which it considered that the ball has become in the Israeli court.
Israel announced providing " generous " facilities represented in lifting the security siege and pulling out its forces from Toulkarem, Qalqilya, Hebron al-Teira district in Ramullah and dismantling ten barriers from the roads of the West Banks, providing facilities for the movement of the Palestinians inside Gaza, while Israel is still keeping tightened security, according to a decision by the Israeli defense ministry imposed on Jenin, Nablus and Ramullah.
Arafat, personally denied any alleviation of the Israeli siege. He called on journalists in a press conference he held with Norway's foreign minister Yan Peterson to go to the places which Israel has claimed to have had alleviated its measures.
Arafat stressed that the Palestinian Authority has exerted great efforts in order to fix the cease fire and succeeded in maintaining calm, but Israel responded to all these by continuing military escalation and human and material siege. Zinni's new mission will last for four days.