Israel retaliated for a series of Palestinian terror attacks with helicopter missile strikes in four West Bank cities. The helicopters hit two empty offices of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction near Ramallah and a government building in Jericho. Helicopters also struck the Palestinian police headquarters near Jenin, while Israeli tank shells hit a security post in Nablus.
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