`Blow' to settlement drive

GAZA - A senior PLO official said yesterday that the Palestinian Authority's ban on land sales to Jews had dealt a severe blow…

GAZA - A senior PLO official said yesterday that the Palestinian Authority's ban on land sales to Jews had dealt a severe blow to Israel's settlement drive in the West Bank. But Mr Ahmed Abdel Rahman, general secretary of the Palestinian Authority, denied the PLO was behind the killing of Arab land dealers.

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