RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israel planted its flag in Yasser Arafat compound Saturday, and shell bursts shook his offices, chipping away at the building in an ever-tightening siege designed to make the Palestinian leader surrender militants or leave into exile.
Soldiers with loudspeakers in the evening shouted to the estimated 200 people holed up in Arafat’s offices to evacuate the building — the last one still standing in the compound — or else troops would blow up the building. Israel has insisted that it does not aim to harm Arafat even as it has torn his command center down around him over the past three days, and it appeared unlikely troops would carry out the threat.
What the hell these israeli’s think they are doing?