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To: LLCF who wrote (157375)	3/27/2002 1:53:02 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

---- or this ? - IDF arrests Palestinian ambulance driver carrying explosives By Amos Harel, Jonathan Lis and Nadav Shragai, Ha'aretz Correspondent, and agencies IDF troops inspecting the ambulance after removing the explosives. (Photo: Reuters) Reserve soldiers at the Rama roadblock, north of Jerusalem, arrested an ambulance driver for the Palestinian Red Cross on Wednesday morning, after discovering that he was carrying an explosive device in his ambulance. The man said that he was transporting the explosives, which were strapped to a belt, from the area of the West Bank city of Nablus at the request of an activist from the military wing of Fatah, which is headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Palestinian officials dismissed the report as an Israeli fabrication. Reporters at the scene, however, heard a loud boom when IDF sappers detonated the belt taken from the ambulance. The explosives belt, weighing 10 kilos, was hidden in the back of the ambulance underneath a stretcher, which was carrying a sick Palestinian boy. Members of the boy's family were also traveling in the ambulance. The security establishment has justified in the past the prevention of Palestinian ambulances evacuating casualties from area of combat, saying that the ambulances were used to smuggle terrorists and weapons. This is the first time clear proof of this claim has been found. "This is the first case we managed to document," said Colonel Ilan Paz, commander of the Binyamin Brigade. "It shows that our checks of ambulances are not without justification." The driver told investigators he had been told to give the bomb to Tanzim activists in Ramallah, the army said. All five people in the ambulance were detained for questioning. Moussa Abu Sneid, the director of hospitals in the West Bank, insisted there were no explosives or militants in the vehicles. Militant killed, arms dealer wounded in Nablus blast A Palestinian militant was killed and his uncle, a known weapons dealer, critically wounded when an explosion went off in the militant's home close to the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses said. The explosion went off in the Al Ein refugee camp near Nablus. The dead man was identified as Said Nasser, 32, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Nasser's uncle, Sabah Abdel Ala, was critically wounded in the blast. Two infiltrators killed near Gaza IDF troops killed two Palestinian during a manhunt that began late Tuesday night for infiltrators who entered Israel near Kibbutz Kissufim, east of the Gaza Strip. One of the infiltrators was killed late Tuesday night and the second was killed Wednesday morning. Two IDF soldiers were shot during the manhunt in an exchange of fire with the infiltrators. One of them, the deputy commander of an armored unit suffered light to moderate wounds and was taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva. The second soldier sustained light injuries and was treated at the scene.