Thursday, June 29, 2000

PA negotiator Erakat says that the PA has lodged complaints with the U.S. and the European Union (EU) regarding Israel's fortification of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. The IDF acknowledges only that for the past 3 mos., troops have been undergoing low-intensity conflict training in case final status talks fail, sparking violence. (MM 6/29; NYT, WT 6/30; MM 7/3)