Only a door separated Israeli soldiers from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's private office on Saturday after a night of continuous shelling and shooting around his headquarters, aides said. Arafat spent the night in darkness after Israeli troops besieging his West Bank compound cut off the electricity and telephone and conditions there were steadily worsening, they said. The aides said Israeli troops have been gradually tightening their siege around Arafat and a handful of close aides inside the 70-year-old al-Moqataa district compound in Ramallah.

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