That is bad news for Mr Arafat, whose stock in Hebron is at an all-time low.
About 150, 000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers live in Hebron, the last West Bank city under Israeli control.
In Hebron, violent clashes between militants on both sides have become an almost daily occurrence.
In Hebron, also in the West Bank, an entrepreneur has opened the city's first luxury hotel.
But Palestinians in Hebron say that Ms Susskind is a symptom of Hebron's problems, not the cause.
In the middle of the conversation, I receive reports of gunfire toward the Jewish community in Hebron.
On the eve of the meeting, the killing of the ten-month-old daughter of Israeli settlers in Hebron, provoked Israeli fury.
Mahmoud al-Titi was the man killed around the al-Fawar camp south of Hebron, according to Issa Amer, a activist in Hebron.
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The most recent contingent, an international presence in Hebron, was admitted, albeit reluctantly, by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu in 1996.
Islamic Jihad had been threatening retribution following the killing by Israel of Muhammad Seder, one of its senior operatives in Hebron, on August 14th.
This week the administration condemned Israel for defining the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem as national heritage sites.
In Hebron in the West Bank, where Abu Hamdiya was born, dozens of Palestinian protesters were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers, Palestinian medical services said.
When he paid a condolence visit to the widow of a prominent rabbi who was killed in Hebron two weeks ago, she yelled in his face.
One man, Arafat Jaradat, died in disputed circumstances in an Israeli jail last weekend - just days after he was arrested following an angry protest in Hebron.
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Talks over the troop redeployment in Hebron broke down over the issue of security for some 400 Jewish settlers in the city of more than 100, 000 Palestinians.
As negotiators met again on Sunday to continue their talks, Israeli troops rounded up several Palestinians suspected of tossing two Molotov cocktails at a Jewish settlement in Hebron.
The Palestinian Authority's response to the ambush in Hebron was one of resounding silence, in contrast to its condemnation of the kibbutz attack, which left five Israelis dead.
In addition to their campus outreach, the ISM sponsors the weekly riots against the security fence in Bil'in and in Hebron, where its protesters throw rocks at IDF soldiers.
The IDF said the Israeli army, along with Jewish settlers, had been under "massive" and "ongoing" attacks by Palestinian gunmen from four sites in Hebron when Israeli forces struck back.
The Palestinians say those in Hebron fit nicely with Mr Sharon's plan to link the tiny settler enclaves in the city to the much bigger Kiryat Arba settlement on its outskirts.
In Hebron, the Jewish settlers redoubled their pressure on the government and the army to reoccupy the Abu Sneineh quarter, from where Palestinian snipers have fired on to the small Jewish enclave.
The fact that the West Bank was home to the major biblical sites the old city of Jerusalem, the tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem added to the sensation of a divine guiding hand.
Since the beginning of December, Israel has tightened its grip on the reconquered West Bank cities, confiscated more land in the area, killed over 30 Palestinians, arrested scores more, and demolished a large number of Palestinian homes in Hebron and the Gaza strip.
In addition to its routine condemnations of the security fence, Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and Israel's refusal to give Hamas control over its border with Israel, UNESCO's board asserted that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah are all buried, is a mosque.
The tighter the link, mainly in terms of roads and the contiguity and acquisition of Jewish houses in ancient Hebron, the harder it will be, in the event of a two-state settlement, to remove a Jewish presence.
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And, after the killing of the Hebron settler, soldiers blasted the cave dwellings and water wells of Bedouins who live in the Hebron Hills.
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Due to US pressure, over the past year, Israel allowed those forces to deploy in Jenin and Hebron, and in recent months they took some significant actions against Hamas operatives in those areas.
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