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To: Ilaine who wrote (23482)	4/4/2002 5:21:09 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 281500

This story was denied and after that all rumors spread by the PLO and Father Faltas who is a PLO sympathizer, died down. Now after realizing that he lied all is quiet about this fabricated incident. NO HARM TO HOLY SITE "We are weighing all the possibilities so that in the end we will get the people out. I don't reject anything but we have no intention of harming a Christian holy site," said Aviv. He said the gunmen included militants from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups. Aviv said that most of the priests and monks were being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen who forced the clerics to grant them sanctuary after Israeli forces invaded Bethlehem and rumbled up to Manger Square. He accused Palestinian Authority officials of rejecting a deal he brokered overnight with the people in the church in which everyone would come out peacefully and only those suspected of being "terrorists" would be held by Israel. Three explosions and heavy machinegun fire were heard near the church Thursday, but reporters were unable to verify what had happened. Aviv denied that the army had fired at or in the church or blasted open a door to the building although he said they had blown open the door of a nearby house but had not entered. Father Ibrahim Faltas,custodian of the church,......" the guy is a known PLO rubber stamp" said in a telephone interview with Italian RAI television news that fighting had broken out. "The situation is very serious," he added. reuters.com