Arafat Hails Informal Mideast Peace Plan

World | December 2, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
Arafat Hails Informal Mideast Peace Plan Y. Rabbo (R) Palestina’s main negotiator confers with J. al-Rajub, national security advisor to the Palestinian Authority (L). The chief architects of the unofficial peace plan are set to meet US Secretary of State. Photo by AFP

Yasser Arafat praised an informal Israeli-Palestinian peace pact, but violence persisted in the West Bank with an Israeli sweep through the town of Ramallah. Three militants were killed in the Monday raid, the army said. Palestinians said a 9-year-old boy was also among the dead. Soldiers made dozens of arrests. The army said the overnight operation targeted the Hamas infrastructure in the Ramallah area, which it blamed for killing more than 60 Israelis in more than three years of fighting. In Geneva, scores of Israeli and Palestinian politicians gathered to launch the unofficial accord, worked out by former negotiators from both sides.

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