Israel seems to have been given a…

Israel seems to have been given a free hand to act against Palestinian violence After President Bush's censure of Arafat.

Indeed, Israel persists with its controversial targeted killings of terrorist activists, undermining European efforts to arrange a cease-fire.

In late July, Hamas military chief Salah Shehada, the most likely candidate to replace Sheik Yassin, is assassinated, together with his wife and a daughter, when Israeli F-16 fighter-bomber jets fire missiles at his apartment home in Gaza City shortly after midnight on July 23, 2002, killing sixteen civilians, including nine children; over one hundred people are injured.

Hamas vows to revenge the assassination of its leader, while ...