Israelis Pull Out of W. Bank City of Tulkarm
Honking horns and cheers filled the air Sunday as the once-banned Palestinian flag flew for the first time over this West Bank city.
Tulkarm, less than a mile from the Israeli border, was the second West Bank town to be transferred to Palestinian control under the latest Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization autonomy agreement.
But as Israeli troops left and 400 Palestinian police arrived, Israelis across the border feared they were now vulnerable to violence and crime at the hands of their newly autonomous neighbors.
“I feel a great deal of danger,” said Orna Tsaraf, who has lived at the Nitzanei Oz collective farm on the Israeli side of the border for 45 years.
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