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Sharon calls Security Cabinet meeting
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called a meeting of his Security Cabinet on Tuesday as a three-week-old ceasefire seemed near breakdown, an official said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called a meeting of his Security Cabinet on Tuesday as a three-week-old ceasefire seemed near breakdown, an official said.
Foreign minister Shimon Peres, finance minister Sylvan Shalom and senior military and intelligence officials were present.
The meeting followed the discovery of the body of a Jewish settler overnight near the Soussia settlement in the West Bank's Hebron area.
The dead man, Yair Har-Sinai a shepherd in his fifties, had gone missing the day before. His body showed signs of violence, a military source said. Since the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on June 13, 15 Palestinians and nine Israelis have been killed.
The latest death brings the toll from more than nine months of fighting to 636 since the Palestinian Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation broke out on September 28 last year.
In other incidents two mortar bombs were fired at two settlements of the Gush Katif complex in the Gaza Strip, causing no casualties, the source added.
Meanwhile hardline interior minister Eli Landau, speaking on public radio, called for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to be officially declared the head of a terrorist organisation that must be destroyed.
Bureau Report
The dead man, Yair Har-Sinai a shepherd in his fifties, had gone missing the day before. His body showed signs of violence, a military source said. Since the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on June 13, 15 Palestinians and nine Israelis have been killed.
The latest death brings the toll from more than nine months of fighting to 636 since the Palestinian Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation broke out on September 28 last year.
In other incidents two mortar bombs were fired at two settlements of the Gush Katif complex in the Gaza Strip, causing no casualties, the source added.
Meanwhile hardline interior minister Eli Landau, speaking on public radio, called for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to be officially declared the head of a terrorist organisation that must be destroyed.
Bureau Report