Israeli hunt for suspect kills 19

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Chris McGreal in Nablus | The Guardian

In a three-week occupation of the biggest Palestinian city the Israeli army has killed 19 people, wrecked dozens of buildings and confined tens of thousands to their homes in a futile search for the leader of "the heart of the terror networks".

Before Christmas soldiers flooded Nablus and the neighbouring refugee camp of Balata in pursuit of the leaders of al-Aqsa martyrs brigades responsible for organising dozens of suicide bombings. Top of their list was Naif Sharekh, the brigades commander in the city.

Soldiers brandished Mr Sharakh's picture and deman ded to know his whereabouts. His wife was paraded in an army jeep through the casbah and forced to call over a megaphone for her husband to surrender.

"They wound up killing all these people and destroying all these houses and they didn't get any of the ones they were really looking for," said Taysir Naserallah, head of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organisation in Nablus.

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1. one of many stories we won't see in our U.S. "media"

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