Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that more preparations were needed ahead of a planned October 2 summit with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "If we want a successful meeting, we should prepare for it," Abbas told reporters. "If this is done, then there is no obstacle to holding the meeting."
On his part, Sharon declared at the outset of the cabinet's weekly session "I have ordered that there be no limitation regarding use of all means to hit the terrorists, the men of the terror organizations, to hit them, their equipment, and their hideouts." "The order is unequivocal."
The Israeli prime minister said that his country had embarked on "an ongoing operation, whose aim is to hit terrorists, and not to relent from this. All means are fit for this. Apart from our usual practice of refraining from harming civilians, all means should be used to halt this phenomenon."
