March 12, 1999

Israel leaks to the media, condemns a 3/1 confidential note verbale fr. the EU protesting Israeli FMin. orders for the EU to halt contacts with Palestinian officials in Jerusalem. (MM, Prime Minister's Report 3/15; WJW 3/18; JP 3/19; WP 3/20; MEI 3/26)

In Dayr Abu Mishal, n. of Jerusalem, IDF soldiers clash with Palestinians throwing stones at passing Israeli cars, shooting a 7-yr.-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber-coated bullet, seriously injuring him. (AFP [Internet] 3/13)

3 Israeli right-wing parties (Molodet, Herut, Tekuma) that reject any land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians agree to run in the 5/17 elections as bloc headed by fmr. Likud mbr. Benjamin Begin. (NYT, WP 3/13; JP 3/19)