The Jerusalem Post
The IDF has
announced a major news conference open to foreign and local journalists
this evening in Haifa.
OC Navy Adm.
Yedidya Ya'ari and the head of military intelligence assessment
Brig.-Gen. Amos Gilad will address the meeting in the port city.
Earlier this
evening, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer issued an urgent
warning regarding what he said is an imminent escalation of violence
in the territories.
Ben-Eliezer
warned that the Palestinians may very shortly move well beyond
the use of mortars in their attacks on Israeli targets.
"My evaluation
is that in the coming days, maybe even in the coming hours, we
will find ourselves in a reality that will simply be hard to believe,"
Ben-Eliezer said. "I think that we will shortly going to
move beyond mortar attacks."
The defense
minister warned that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat
is bringing the region closer and closer to total chaos.
Ben-Eliezer
spokesman Yarden Vatikai told The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
that he has no inofrmation for the media at the current time.
Arafat's Fatah
movement has announced an emergency meeting tonight in the Gaza
Strip.
The emergency
gathering of Fatah members was announced in the wake of a death
of a Palestinian baby in the southern Gaza Strip this afternoon
as a result of IDF tank fire.
According
to a senior Fatah source, "Fatah will study new ways to respond
to the Israeli escalation."
JPost Radio
has prepared a report on the IDF's expected major announcement.
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