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A12 Sunday, April 22, 2001 THE PANTAGRAPH www.pantagraph.com Battle scars linger on Gaza Strip AN l-Mr A i A 1 1 mfwrn By Knight Ridder Newspapers GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip With armored vehicles blockading the road to his work during Israel's short-lived invasion last week, Saleem Hasanin went to the beach. It was hardly a vacation. The beach was the only path for Hasanin and many other Gazans to get around Israel's latest effort to crush the Palestinian uprising, so they trudged through the sand or hired horse carts through the Mediterranean surf. "This is just to make our lives harder, to make us surrender, but we can get through this," said Hasanin, a construction contractor heading home to the Bureij refugee camp. "We'll see who wins." Defiant as ever, Palestinians came away emboldened after Israel's hasty retreat from Gaza under U.S.

pressure. Within hours of Israel's withdrawal from the square mile it had reoccupied in northeast Gaza, the 7-month Palestinian uprising was back in full swing. Palestinians quickly resumed firing mortar shells into Israeli towns. Israel, despite its rapped knuckles, vowed to resume crushing the uprising with more "pinpoint strikes" and "engineering activities" a euphemism for its retaliatory bulldozing of police posts, houses and orange groves. On Saturday, the Israeli army again briefly invaded Gaza, bulldozing a Palestinian police post in Rafah in retaliation for gunfire against an army position, the army said.

The 90-minute incursion was Israel's third in the last last week. No one was injured. The radical Hamas organization announced that it would continue its mortar shelling at Israel, despite reports that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's police had arrested a few members of its mortar crews. Israeli and Palestinian security officials held a late-night meeting on Saturday that was set up by U.S.' officials. It came amid talk of "discreet" diplomatic contacts between the two sides and a pledge by Israel tp lift the blockades in Gaza, but a AP An unidentified Palestinian woman talked with Palestinian police (only their gun barrels are visible) as she sat in the ruins of her home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, on Saturday.

Israeli tanks and bulldozers rolled into the area on Tuesday in response to Palestinian mortar fire at an Israeli town over the weekend. orchards the crews allegedly used. They have fired on kibbutzim in Israel several times since Sharon ordered the end of the invasion after Secretary of State Colin Powell condemned it as "excessive and disproportionate." Since the retreat, Israel has been consumed with bitter recriminations over the wisdom of the move. While Sharon claims he never intended the troops to stay in Gaza, the left wing has criticized him for resorting to his old ways as a military commander and scapegoating a general who said the Israelis would stay "days, weeks or even months." "When he came to power I defended him and said 'Wait, give him Mubarak said. "Now I have the impression he is only interested in violence.

He wants to force the Palestinians to follow his line." The short invasion and its aftermath seemed to be a new low point. Sharon ordered the action Monday night after Palestinians fired five mortar shells into the Israeli city of Sderot, though no one was injured. Israeli troops invaded under a barrage of helicopter and tank fire. Undeterred, mortar gangs shelled Jewish settlements in Gaza even as Israeli troops were leveling negotiated truce appeared as elusive as ever. Despite criticism from the U.S.

over the Gaza incursion last week, Sharon vowed on Saturday to charge ahead with his harsh tactics against the Palestinians. He denied that American officials had pressured Israel into withdrawing. "Israel has no master. Israel obeys no one, Sharon told France's Le Figaro newspaper. "In the future, the Palestinians will be very careful before they get involved in other terrorist attacks." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak joined in the criticism of Sharon's hard-edged policies, telling a German magazine in an interview to be published on Monday that he is now convinced that Sharon is not interested in peace.

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