A casino built with funding from Austrian and Palestinian investors held a glitzy opening-night bash in the West Bank town of Jericho. The casino hopes to attract Israelis, Palestinians with foreign passports and foreign tourists. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat made the casino off-limits to residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a gesture to Islamic officials. Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin railed against the new venture, calling it a den of iniquity.
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