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Show Al3 Thursday, October 9, 2003 The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Israel deploys more troops on rumorofPalestinian attacks months. By Greg Myre As Israel’s defense minister, Shaul! Mofaz, called The New York Tisnes for the additional troops, which could include reservists, Israeli intelligence warned of more than $ JERUSALEM — Faced with dozens of warnings of possible new Palestinian attacks, Israel ordered additional troops to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and maintained tough restrictions on Palestinian movements in those areas. After a Middle East peace plan was introduced in June,Israeli troops withdrew from somePalestinian areas and began lifting a limited number of roadblocks. But renewed violence has left the 30 possible Palestinian attacks, Israeli news organizations reported. While that numberis not considered unusually high,the Israeli authorities have decided to keep the current restrictions in place indefinitely. A “general closure” prevents the 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip In addition, Palestinians are barred from traveling from one Palestinian town to another within the West Bank and Gaza. Most Palestinians have JERUSALEM — Advisers to Yasser Arafat denied claims andoff for the past two weeks,andIsraeli newsreports said they were notlikelyto be lifted for an other two weeks. In another development, Israel announced that it had arrested three Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem suspected ofassisting suicide bombers from the West Bank whocarried out three attacks in Jerusalemin recent months. The three are accused of giving bombbelts to the attackers when theyarrivedin East Jerusalem from Hebron, a West Bank city to the south. In at least one case, the police said the suspects had provided an attacker with clothes so he could disguise himself as an Orthodox Jew. Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem have special identity cards that allow them to move freely inside Israel, unlike Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. -DAY SALE Aides say Aratatjust has theflu THE WaSHINGTON Post The present restrictions have been in place on from entering Israel. peace plan in tatters, and Israel has reimposed some of the most stringent travel restrictions in been unable to enter Israel since the current round of violence began three years ago, and the internal restrictions make normal life virtually impossible. ManyPalestinians have ordinarily traveled between towns or from outlying villages to reach their jobs and schools, or to shop. Israel said the army would maintain “a full en circlement on all of the Palestinian cities in the West Bank,” while the Gaza Strip has been cut into four sections, with Palestinians unable to move from one to another. 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