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Israel to end Arafat siege

JERUSALEM APRIL 28. Israel today accepted a U.S. proposal to end the siege around the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat's West Bank compound but withheld approval for a U.N. fact-finding team to visit the devastated Jenin refugee camp.

In Bethlehem, a fifth round of talks failed to end the 27-day-old Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity, with a new session slated for later today.

In a potential breakthrough, the Israeli Cabinet voted to accept a plan advanced by the U.S. President, George Bush, that would put wanted militants holed up in Arafat's Ramallah office under U.S. or British guard in a Palestinian jail. — AFP

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