AROUND THE CLOCK COVERAGE

Latest Update: Maher in Ramallah; Powell meets Sharon; Israel rejects a Vatican call; France sends emergency medical aid; Israeli army kills child in Nablus; Church in Nablus destroyed; officials say that Israel lied about leaving small villages; Details Inside ..

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News Update: 10:00 AM GMT to 2:00 PM GMT (Friday)

-Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher arrives to Ramallah to hold talks with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in his besieged headquarters.

-Sharon says Israel will continue its war in the West Bank, and Powell says he understands Israel’s need to launch such war. However, he said, Israel should look beyond such response and revive the political front.

-Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned that Israel was losing international support because of its incursions in the West Bank, adding that these had strengthened the authority of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "As friends of Israel we are saying: this is doing you no good, you are losing friends and supporters and understanding around the world," Straw told the BBC.

News Update: 6:00 AM GMT to 10:00 AM GMT (Friday)

Burned Corpses of Children Found in Nablus; Army says it killed hundreds in refugee camp, but refuses to call the killing a massacre; Palestinian fighter, Israeli solider killed in Gaza;

Burned Corpses of Children Found in Nablus: Several corpses of completely burned Palestinian children were found in the Yasmina neighborhood in Nablus. The children were killed when Israeli missiles hit their house. Elsewhere in Nablus, two Palestinian families were found dead under the rubble of their homes. Scores of Palestinians were killed in Nablus when Israel initiated a bloody invasion several days ago. The city is still under curfew where a humanitarian crisis is said to have left people with no food, water or medical aid.

Army says it killed hundreds in refugee camp, but refuses to call it massacre: The Israeli army says its soldiers killed or wounded hundreds of Palestinians during this week's fierce attack on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp. An army spokesman (Brigadier General Ron Kitrey) revealed the new estimate on Israeli radio Friday, sharply revising upward the army's previous estimate of some 100 Palestinians killed in the camp.