Israeli settler leaders called on the government to place Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah headquarters under siege. The demand came in the wake of a security assessment that the terrorists who killed an Israeli man in a shooting attack Sunday came from the Palestinian Authority president’s compound and returned there after the attack, Israel Radio reported.
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