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ISRAEL DECLARES "ALL OUT WAR" ON PALESTINIANS


Israel declared "all-out war" against Hamas Monday and said it is
freezing diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority unless
the Palestinian leadership takes "tangible steps to deal with
infrastructures of terror."

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They have all announced an end to their self-imposed cease-fire,
blaming Israel's targeted killings of Hamas militants before and after
the bus bombing.

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ISRAEL DECLARES "ALL OUT WAR" ON PALESTINIANS


Israel declared "all-out war" against Hamas Monday and said it is
freezing diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority unless
the Palestinian leadership takes "tangible steps to deal with
infrastructures of terror."

A statement released after a Cabinet meeting cited Defense Minister
Shaul Mofaz as saying the August 19 bus bombing in Jerusalem had
"broken the track that was supposed to give the diplomatic process a
chance."

Before the Israeli announcement, Israeli military helicopters fired
missiles at Hamas members Monday in Gaza City.

Israeli security sources said a helicopter fired on "a car loaded with
arms ... killing two Hamas military activists." They were identified
as Khader Housari, 40, and Munther Kanitha, 32.

Palestinian sources said one Hamas member was killed and conceded that
doctors said a second Hamas member was "clinically dead."

Twenty-five people were wounded in the attack, according to Dr. Mauia
Abu Hasanin, director of the Shifa Hospital emergency room.

In addition to Monday's strike, Israeli helicopter attacks during the
past two weeks have killed 10 Hamas activists and wounded more than 50
Palestinians as part of an Israeli strategy to target suspected
terrorists

Monday's statement from Israel said it has adopted the following
positions:

• "An all-out war against Hamas and other terrorist elements,
including continuous strikes at the organization's leaders";

• "Pressure on [focuses] of terror" in the West Bank; and

• A freezing of "the diplomatic process with the [Palestinian
Authority] ... unless [Israel] sees that the PA is taking tangible
steps to deal with the infrastructures of terror."

Since the Jerusalem bus bombing, the statement said, Israel had
carried out "five targeted eliminations" of Hamas members and stepped
up operational activities in the West Bank.

"The security establishment is preparing for the possibility of a
security escalation and renewed wave of terror against Israel," the
statement said.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the August 19
suicide bombing, which killed 21 people.

Palestinians have previously said that the Israeli strikes keep them
from bearing down on militants staging attacks on Israeli targets.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has been under pressure to
convince militants to end their attacks after a June summit with
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush to move forward
the U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.

On June 29, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- the
militant offshoot of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's
Fatah movement -- announced a temporary cease-fire on Israeli targets,
which was followed by seven weeks of relative calm in the region.

All three groups are considered terrorist organizations by the U.S.
State Department.

They have all announced an end to their self-imposed cease-fire,
blaming Israel's targeted killings of Hamas militants before and after
the bus bombing.

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ISRAEL DECLARES "ALL OUT WAR" ON PALESTINIANS

Israel declared "all-out war" against Hamas Monday and said it is
freezing diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority unless
the Palestinian leadership takes "tangible steps to deal with
infrastructures of terror."