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August 17, 2001
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The U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet to decide whether to review recent Israeli actions against the Palestinians. Arab and Muslim nations made the request after Israel’s recent closure of the unofficial Palestinian headquarters in Jerusalem, and its seizure of several Palestinian military and government buildings just east of the Israeli capital, in response to a suicide bombing.

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