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October 9, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,805067,00.html

Nablus Under Curfew

(Guardian - UK) Chris McGreal - Colonel Noam Tibon, a 40-year-old, Harvard-educated, IDF career officer, is specific about why he has subjected Nablus to a longer and tighter curfew than anywhere else. "The people in Nablus are responsible for more than 80% of all the suicide bombs in Israel," he said. "The biggest laboratories for making bombs are here, and many people who volunteer for suicide squads." As a result of the curfew, no homicide bombings have been successfully launched from Nablus in the past 100 days and 15 potential bombers have been captured.

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