Tuesday, August 10, 1999

In Amman, King Abdallah receives Israeli FM Levy for talks on the peace process. (MM 8/10; NYT, WT 8/11)

A Palestinian twice deliberately plows his car into a group of IDF soldiers hitchhiking along a road nr. Jerusalem, injuring 12 before being fatally shot. (MM 8/10; CSM, NYT, WP, WT 8/11; JUM 8/11 in WNC 8/13; MEI 8/20)

An unidentified assailant shoots, wounds a Jewish settler nr. Jinin. IDF seals off several nearby Palestinian villages in a search for the attacker. (NYT 8/12; MA 8/12 in WNC 8/13)

With PM Barak's approval, Israeli police working under the cover of darkness wall up a window at the Haram al-Sharif compound that Waqf officials had enlarged to make a new door. (MM 8/10, 8/11, 8/13)