Israel Clamps Down After Shooting

Sat., July 27, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Reacting to the first fatal terrorist attack in Israel since assuming power last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government sealed off West Bank territories Friday and hinted that Israel might have to go into Palestinian-controlled areas to hunt down the attackers.

“There will be absolutely no compromise in the war against terrorism and no restrictions on our security forces,” the government said in a statement late Friday, following the overnight drive-by shooting in which two Israelis were killed.

A third victim was fighting for his life after the car he and the others were in was riddled with bullets on an isolated rural road near the “Green Line” that separates Israel from the occupied West Bank, now partially under the control of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority.

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