Excerpts From Jordan Times:
Palestinians deny killing Jewish infant * Israel Journalists ejected from Arab summit * Arab League ineffective and bankrupt.

Headlines:
“Israel blockades Hebron to punish Palestinians after death of baby.”

Quote from Text:
“Palestinian cabinet minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, in Amman for the Arab summit, told Reuters there was `no evidence’ the baby was killed by Palestinians.”

Excerpts:
Israel blamed the Palestinian National Authority for the death of a Jewish settler infant in Hebron and decided to impose a blockade on the city to punish the Palestinian population of the city.

The PNA said there was no evidence the child was killed by Palestinians and blamed the violence on Israel’s ocupation of Palestinian territories.

The occupation army also ordered the evacuation of the Abu Sneinah Arab district in the city [IMRA: Which overlooks the Jewish area.] ahead of a possible military response to the death of the baby, a radio report said.

After the baby’s death the Israeli army opened fire on the Abu Sneinah district injuring at least on Palestinian, according to Palestinian sources.

Palestinian cabinet minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, in Amman for the Arab summit, told Reuters there was “no evidence” the baby was killed by Palestinians, and blamed the violence on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, blaming the Palestinian Authority for the killing, decided to impose a blockade on the city. Colonel Noam Tivon, brigade commander in Hebron, said a Palestinian sniper had opened fire on the baby and her father who were standing in front of their home in the illegal Jewish settlement of Avraham Avinu in the divided city.

[IMRA: Tivon did not say the settlement is “illegal”.]

This piece was researched, located and distributed by Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA

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