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By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, JAN. 28. Undermining prospects of reviving the stalled peace process, Israeli army today raided an enclave in the Gaza strip, killing at least eight Palestinians. According to eyewitnesses, the incursion took place in Gaza city's Al-Zeitoun area as Israeli forces pushed in tanks, jeeps and bulldozers. Most of the dead belonged to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, which claimed that it had lost five of its fighters during the raid. The Israeli attack took place within hours of talks between the U.S. envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, John Wolf and the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei, aimed at salvaging the stalled internationally mediated peace process. Mr. Qurei told reporters that the U.S. officials also recommended that he should meet the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "We told them,' OK, help in the preparation for the meeting. We are not against it. If there is a successful meeting, a meeting with good indications for our people, we are ready.'' The Palestinian Prime Minister in the past has been reluctant to hold talks with the Israeli Premier, unless he was assured that talks would prove productive. The meeting took place a day after the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Maher, met Yasser Arafat as well as other Palestinian leaders in a bid to get assurances from Palestinians that attacks on Israelis would be kept on hold. "There are serious efforts to revive peace efforts by the Americans and the Egyptians ... This (Gaza incursion) will undermine the efforts,'' the Palestinian Cabinet Minister, Saeb Erekat, said. Pointing out that the Israeli incursion would dampen any fresh peace bid, a senior Islamic Jihad functionary was quoted as saying that, "This new massacre aims to provoke an escalation and sabotage the peace efforts by the Arabs and the international community."
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