Israel ignores outcry to raid more refugee camps.(Foreign News)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: March 8, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

ISRAEL IGNORED international condemnation yesterday of its strategy of raiding crowded and volatile Palestinian refugee camps, which has led to dozens of deaths over the past few days, and sent its troops storming into two more.

The attacks came as Israel pressed ahead with its non-stop military offensive across the occupied territories against the Palestinians whom the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has vowed to beat into submission.

As the Middle East saw another day of death and near misses - including a suicide bomber wrestled to the ground in Jerusalem before he hit ...