World News 06-10-2003 Israeli Revenge Attack `Unacceptable` who: UN ambassador Fayssal Mekdad what: Calls for international condemnation of Israel`s missile strike on Syria where: NEW YORK when: Yesterday snippet: "Israel launched its deepest raid into Syria in 30 years yesterday," says The Guardian, "to bomb an apparently abandoned Palestinian `terrorist training base` north of Damascus in retaliation for the suicide bombing of a Haifa restaurant that killed 19 people, including four children." "Israel claimed the target of its attack was a training camp used by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad," says The Independent`s Justin Huggler, "and said the air strike was in retaliation for a suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad which killed 19 people, four of them children, in a restaurant in Haifa on Saturday." The suicide attack happened inside a restaurant called Maxim where a 29 year-old female lawyer from the West Bank city of Jenin "coldly shot dead a security guard then blew herself up," says The Sun`s Neil Syson. "Syria said the raid represented a `grave escalation` of regional tensions," says The Telegraph, "but Israel accused Syria of sponsoring terrorism and gave warning of still more attacks." France and Germany immediately criticised the attack as "unacceptable", and the Arab League condemned it. The United Nations security council met in an emergency session and Syria`s UN ambassador Fayssal Mekdad is demanding a strong rebuke. [... more]

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