Israel on high alert against Iraqi attack

Israel is staying on high alert against an Iraqi strike, despite a British reassurance that coalition forces have disabled Saddam Hussein’s ability to launch missiles from western Iraq.

Thousands of Palestinians held demonstrations in the West Bank yesterday, pleading with Saddam Hussein to strike Israel with missiles and chemical weapons. In the 1991 Gulf War, the Jewish state was hit with 39 conventional Scud missiles, which caused heavy damage and hundreds of injuries, but few deaths.