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The cart, the donkey and the Palestinian were all blown to bits." While Palestinians hardly ever throw rocks at settlers any more, shooting incidents, which used to be rare, have become common be- cause the Palestinians have rel- atively easy access to guns, Mr. Hendel said. According to the army, there have been 153 shooting incidents in Gaza since autonomy began, 35 roadside mines discovered, 11 Molotov cocktails and three grenades thrown, seven stab- bings and one arson. He maintained that the joint jeep patrols, which will also be conducted in the West Bank, have been a failure and a humil- iation for Israeli soldiers in Gaza. "There have been hundreds of in- cidents where the Israeli soldier wanted to stop a Palestinian car and check it, and the Palestinian policeman cocked his rifle and aimed it at the soldier, so he was forced to let the suspicious car go," Mr. Hendel said. A military source says these incidents occurred when the joint patrols began, but that they have long stopped. "Our soldiers were calm enough and cool enough to know how to handle it, and the situations were defused," the source said. "Over a period of time, the Palestinian police learned how to behave. I don't think anybody questions any- more that the joint patrols have been a success." Mr. Hendel says he hears from local Palestinians that Mr. Arafat is telling his people to refrain from terror until they get control of the West Bank. In Mr. Heller's opinion, Mr. Arafat is not the problem; Hamas is, and it is be- coming less of one. When Hamas carries out an act of terror, Israel closes the ter- ritories, the Palestinians suffer economically, "and they hold • GREAT LOW PRICES Hamas directly responsible for this," Mr. Heller noted. "Over the last six months there are all kinds of indications that Hamas is losing support." 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