The European Union branded Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorist networks.” E.U. foreign ministers meeting in Brussels issued a statement Monday that called on the Palestinian Authority to dismantle the two groups, arrest and try terror suspects, and issue a “public appeal in Arabic for an end to the armed intifada.”
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