Israel: May 2, 2005

Archives

The Palestinian authorities protested an Israeli raid into the West Bank. The Israelis were after two terrorist leaders who had recently escaped from Palestinian prison. The two men were previously held in an Israeli jail, but were handed over to the Palestinians last month as a peace gesture. The Israelis accused the Palestinian Authority of allowing the two terrorists to escape, something that had happened often before (the Palestinians would, with great fanfare, arrest known terrorists, who would then escape days or weeks late.) One of the terrorists suspects was killed in the raid, along with one policeman.

 

X

ad

Help Keep Us From Drying Up

We need your help! Our subscription base has slowly been dwindling.

Each month we count on your contributions. You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
  2. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  3. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close