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Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli lead-
ers have decided to crack down
on the Islamic fundamentalist
Hamas movement in response to
its role in perpetrating one of the
worst terrorist attacks in Israeli
history.
Meeting in a special session for
four hours as victims of the dead-
ly incident were buried, Israel's
Cabinet resolved to keep the
Gaza Strip and West Bank sealed
off from Israel proper indefinite-
ly. The move, proposed by Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who also
serves as defense minister, will
prevent thousands of Palestini-
ans from reaching jobs in Israel.
The Cabinet also voted to put
"additional means" at the dis-
posal of the Israeli security ser-
vices, "to intensify actions against
Hamas and its military wing."
But it did not elaborate on the
type of expanded powers it had
granted.
"There are things obviously
that won't be made public, as you
can imagine, but the closure will
continue at this time until fur-
ther announcement," said Envi-
ronment Minister Yossi Sarid.
The Cabinet met a day after a
terrorist bomb exploded aboard
a bus in Tel Aviv, killing 21 Is-
raelis and leaving more that 40
others wounded.
An anonymous caller said the
suicide bombing had been com-
mitted by a member of Hamas.
The next day, members of the
militant movement released a
videotape of a man bidding
farewell to his friends and fami-
ly.
Hamas did not explicitly say
that the man, identified as Salah
Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi,
was planning to carry out the Tel
Aviv attack, and an Israeli
woman who got off the bus short-
ly before the bomb went off cast
doubt that he was indeed the per-
petrator.
She related how she had ob-
served a "European-looking' man
sitting in the fourth row of the
bus, who held firmly on to a case
and appeared ill at ease. But, she
said, the man was not the same
as the person appearing on the
videotape released by Hamas.
At the Cabinet session, the
government approved drafting
soldiers into the police force and
also heard recommendations for
cutting off the supply of funds to
Hamas.
Mr. Rabin heard
proposals from
his ministers
for closing Gaza.
Police Minister Moshe Shahal
later spoke of the need "to deal
with the contributions to Hamas
that are going on, on an interna-
tional basis, from Iran, on the one
hand, and Arab Americans, on
the other."
During the Cabinet meeting,
Mr. Rabin heard proposals from
his ministers for closing Gaza and
the West Bank permanently, an
idea he spoke of the night before.
"We need a separation be-
tween us and the Palestinians,
not just for days, but as a way of
life," the prime minister said in a
television interview.
A spokesman for Palestine Lib-
eration Organization Chairman
Yassir Arafat termed the pro-
posal "economic and social war"
on Palestinians.
Opposition members called the
Cabinet's decisions "too little, too
late."
Benjamin Netanyahu, leader
of the opposition Likud party,
who has attacked the govern-
ment's efforts to achieve what he
terms a "false peace" with the
Palestinians, said the govern-
ment should permanently seal off
Gaza.
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