Arafat closes Hamas, Jihad offices after 17 die in Israel

Thursday, December 13, 2001

JERUSALEM -- Israel cut off all contact with Yasser Arafat early Thursday after Palestinian militants killed 10 more Israelis in a bus ambush. The move could wreck U.S. efforts to construct a truce.

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