Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American protester with Palestinian flags painted on her cheeks, stands in front of an Israeli border police officer near the Bethlehem checkpoint, Monday Dec. 31,2001. Religious leaders together with foreign peace activists and local Palestinians held a demonstration in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, protesting against the Israeli presene in the West Bank and Gaza.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Members of the International Movement for Solidarity with Palestinian People stand in front of Israeli Army vehicles during a demonstration to show their support, in the West Bank City of Ramallah December 27, 2001. Israel said on Thursday it would ban Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from travelling to Bethlehem for next month's Greek Orthodox Christmas mass and launched a fresh raid into his territory, seizing eight militants. REUTERS/Osama Silwadi

A member of the International Movement for Solidarity with the Palestinian people kicks a tear gas cannister thrown by Israeli soldiers, seen in the background, during a demonstration to show support for the Palestinian people, Saturday Dec. 29,2001 at a military checkpoint near the West Bank town of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sadek)

An unidentified priest stands next to an Israeli border police officer near the Bethlehem checkpoint, Monday Dec. 31, 2001. Religious leaders together with foreign peace activists and local Palestinians held a demonstration in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, protesting against the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Palestinians and members from the International Movement for Solidarity with Palestinian People remove concrete blocks from the street to open the checkpoint in the West Bank City of Ramallah, December 29, 2001. Palestinians have called for renewed U.S. mediation in the Middle East, saying they were ready to show what they had done to meet Washington's conditions for the return of its envoy. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, right, and unidentified religious leaders march towards a military checkpoint of the edge of Bethlehem, Monday, Dec. 31, 2001, demanding an end to the roadblock restricting Palestinian movements. An Israeli border police officer is at left. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Israeli police arrest an Israeli after he attacked members of the international movement for solidarity with Palestinians in the Palestinian village of Kifl-Hares near the West Bank city of Nablus December 21, 2001. Activists of the movement demonstrated near Palestinian villages against Israeli closure. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

Part of a group of about thirty foreign peace activist lie on the ground during a protest at Israeli tank positions in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Tuesday, Dec.18, 2001. They were protesting against the Israeli incursion into the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

A group of about 30 international peace activists lie on the ground in a symbolic protest about Israeli tank positions in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Tuesday Dec. 18, 2001. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather near an Israeli armored jeep as they wave Palestinian flags, as the Israeli soldier prepars to shoot a tear gas canister into the crowd during a rally in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001. Hundreds of demonstrators accompanied by a group of international supporters made their way toward Israeli positions in Ramallah calling for and end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Foreigners and Israelis from the International solidarity movement wave Palestinian flags next to an Israeli tank during a demonstration against the Israeli closure and occupation in the Palestinian territories in the village of Bourin, north of the West Bank town of Nablus Saturday, Dec. 22, 2001. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Members of the International movement for solidarity with Palestinian people run for cover from teargas thrown by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah December 27, 2001. Israel said it would ban Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from travelling to Bethlehem for next month's Greek Orthodox Christmas mass and launched a fresh raid into his territory, seizing eight militants. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators run to avoid tear gas near an Israeli armored personnel carrier, during a rally in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001. Hundreds of demonstrators accompanied by a group of international supporters made their way toward Israeli positions in Ramallah calling for and end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

A group of about twenty Israeli peace activists put up a sign reading "Better have pains of peace than agonies of war" at the Kalandyia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, after they were refused entry by Israeli authorities into the West Bank town of Ramallah to visit Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

A Palestinian woman and children pass Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint on the road from Jerusalem to the West Bank town of Ramallah December 7, 2001. Israeli warplanes bombed the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters on Friday, wounding at least 18 people in fresh retaliation for deadly suicide attacks in the Jewish state. REUTERS/Nir Elias

An Israeli soldier points his M16 assault rifle at a Palestinian man at Qalndia check point between Ramallah and Jerusalem December 8, 2001. Israeli helicopter gunships struck a Palestinian government compound in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, driving home Israel's demand that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat do more to rein in militants. REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk

A Palestinian man crosses with his donkey under the canon of an Israeli tank near the Palestinian village of Bourin, north of the West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2001. Foreigners and Israelis from the International Solidarity Movement demonstrated on Saturday next to the tank against Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

An Israeli border police overlooks a group of left wing activists, with a sign that say "Stop the Occupation" in English, at a demonstration in front of the Jerusalem's Old city walls Friday Dec. 28, 2001. The group was calling for the withdrawal of Israelis from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

An Israeli Arab man participates along side a group of left wing activists holding signs that say "Stop the Occupation" at a demonstration in front of the Jerusalem's Old city walls Friday Dec. 28, 2001. The group was calling for the withdrawal of Israelis from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

An Israeli soldier guides a blindfolded and hancuffed Palestinian into a bus at the Erez checkpoint to the Gaza Strip December 15, 2001. Israeli armor carrying troops hunting for militants has rumbled deep into Palestinian territory and tanks firing heavy machineguns have killed one policeman and wounded four others as they occupy swaths of the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Tsafrir Abayov