[GushShalom] Cycle of bloodshed resumes - press release

[Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)]

GUSH SHALOM  pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 www.gush-shalom.org

Press Release, August 20, 2003

[The following is the translation of a press release, sent today by Gush 
Shalom to the Israeli media].

Cycle of bloodshed resumes

The horrifying suicide bombing in Jerusalem, in which dozens of 
innocent civians were killed and wounded, deserves to be condemned 
in the sharpest terms. We offer our condolences to all the bereaved 
families. But it is imposible to avoid also considering how did this 
come to happen.

The renewed cyce of bloodshed has begun with the decision of the 
political and military echelons to implement - in the middle of the 
Hudna (cease-fire) - a series of "targeted liquidations", knowing full well 
that that act would lead to retaliation bombings and to the breaking of 
the Hudna. 
The perpetrators of the bombings came from Nablus and Hebron, two 
cities under full control of the Israeli army, and their deed of blood was 
committed in West Jerusalem, where the Israeli police is in charge. In 
none of these places does the Palestinian Authority exercise any 
measure of real control, and its police has no ability to operate there. 
The real immediate solution is to remove the IDF from the Palestinian 
territories and hand over full control to the Palestinian Authority - as 
was laid out in the Road Map.

For more details:
Gush Shalom Spokesperson Adam Keller: 03-5565804 / 056-709603