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Friday October 17, 2003

mideast

After attack, U.S.

restricts Gaza access

jerusalem (jta) | Three Americans were killed when their convoy was bombed in the Gaza Strip.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the roadside attack Wednesday morning on the three-car convoy carrying staff from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.

The three killed were security guards escorting American personnel, some of whom were on their way to interview Palestinians applying to enter the United States as Fulbright scholars.

After the attack, the United States called on Americans to leave the Gaza Strip.

U.N. resolution on fence vetoed by U.S.

jerusalem (jta) | The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel’s West Bank security fence.

The U.S. vetoed the resolution late Tuesday because it was unbalanced, said John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

An alternative resolution proposed by the United States, which would have called on all countries in the Middle East to work against terrorist groups, was not brought to a vote.

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