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Priest2 Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020402/ts_nm/mideast_priest_dc_2 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020402/ts_nm/mideast_priest_dc_2 Italian Priest Killed in Bethlehem Fighting Tue Apr 2, 7:17 AM ET Reuters ROME (Reuters) - An Italian priest was killed on Tuesday during fierce fighting in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the Roman Catholic Missionary Service News Agency (MISNA) reported. MISNA said Jacques Amateis died in St. Mary's convent in Bethlehem. The news agency said it received confirmation of his death from a Jesuit priest who also worked in the biblical town and who was a friend of Amateis. Amateis, 65, was a member of the Salesian religious order. Italian media said he was killed by a burst of gunfire while saying mass inside the church. A number of nuns were also reported to have been injured in the attack. A spokesman for the Salesians in Rome could not confirm the news. "There's a war going on there. It is impossible to get through to the convent," Jose Luis Burguera said. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has demanded an explanation from Israeli authorities into the Bethlehem attack, diplomatic sources said. Witnesses in Bethlehem said outgunned Palestinians fought desperately to keep Israeli troops out of the central Manger Square after tanks and armored vehicles pushed into the West Bank town near Jerusalem overnight. Helicopter gunships poured fire into Manger Square, near the Church of Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus was born, after a Palestinian fighter damaged a tank with a grenade, the witnesses said. MISNA quoted Jesuit priest Peter du Brul as saying that Amateis had lived in the Holy Land "for a lifetime." "He was one of the best experts of modern Arab literature, a top flight academic," du Brul said.

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