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Friday July 6 12:37 PM ET Sharon Finds Europe at Odds with Israeli Policy Photos Reuters Photo By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) returned home from a lightning trip to Europe on Friday acknowledging disagreement with European leaders over Israel's strong-arm policies against the Palestinians. ``I expressed Israel's position in the clearest possible way. There may not be complete agreement, but it's totally clear there is understanding,'' he said after meeting French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. ``I don't think that Europe is a lost cause for Israel,'' he added to reporters on his plane before landing in Tel Aviv. Israeli and Palestinian security officials met in Tel Aviv but no comment was immediately available on whether they had made any progress toward ending one of the bloodiest cycles of Middle East violence in years. ``Our demands are clear -- a complete end to the aggression, a lifting of the siege and the closure...paving the way to political talks, which must go side by side with the security talks,'' a Palestinian security official said before the talks. Emphasizing the fragility of a three-week-old cease-fire, four Palestinian demonstrators were injured by live fire from Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Hebron during confrontations before and after Muslim Friday prayers. Sharon, seeking European support for his stance, said he had told German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday that Israel had ``the right to defend itself.'' But Jospin told Sharon that Israel's demands for a complete end to Palestinian violence before any political moves were discussed may block the path to peace, an aide to the French prime minister said. SNIPER FIRE Three of the injuries in Hebron on Friday occurred as some 300 protesters marched from the main mosque toward an Israeli enclave housing about 400 Jewish settlers. As Palestinians burned Israeli flags, fired in the air and threw stones and bottles of blazing petrol at an Israeli army post, army snipers fired from rooftops, a Reuters reporter said. A doctor at Hebron's main hospital said a protester shot in the chest was in critical condition. The Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) banned a rally by the Islamic militant group Hamas in the West Bank town of Qalqilya expected to draw thousands in honor of Hassan Hutari, a Hamas suicide bomber who killed 21 people at a Tel Aviv night club last month. ``We took the decision in order not to give Israel a pretext to launch any aggression...as we are still committed to a cease-fire,'' said Mustafa al-Malki, governor of Qalqilya. Photos Reuters Photo Thousands of Palestinians chanted anti-Israel slogans and vowed revenge at funerals in Gaza and Ramallah of teenager Murad al-Masri and 39-year-old Nasser Abed, shot by Israeli soldiers. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) and Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) on Thursday criticized an Israeli cabinet decision to step up a policy of assassinating Palestinians planning attacks against Israelis. The Palestinians say more than 40 activists have been deliberately killed since their uprising against Israeli occupation erupted last September. A spokesman said Annan was ``deeply disturbed by the reported decision of the government of Israel to continue the practice of what have become known as targeted assassinations,'' and urged Israel to ``stop this practice forthwith.'' COMPLETE CALM 'NOT POSSIBLE' The Palestinian Authority called on Israel on Thursday to implement a report by a committee under former U.S. senator George Mitchell without waiting for a full cease-fire -- something Israel has repeatedly rejected. The proposals include a freeze on Jewish settlement building in occupied territory. Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, an aide to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), told Palestine Television: ``After what Israel did, and what it is doing, there cannot be complete calm.'' He added: ``Israel does not want a cease-fire. Israel wants a halt of fire against settlers and to secure their presence and their coming and going into Palestinian land, and that is impossible for the Palestinian people to accept. ``The right to self-defense is open to Palestinians living near settlers...Settlers are a deed of the devil.'' Since its inception on June 13, the cease-fire plan devised by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) Director George Tenet has been strained under a fresh wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in which at least 16 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have been killed. The truce was intended to end nine months of bloodshed and pave the way for a renewal of peace negotiations which stalled shortly before the Palestinian uprising erupted. At least 475 Palestinians, 121 Israelis and 13 Israeli Arabs have been killed since then. A Gallup poll of 600 Israelis for the daily Maariv showed 56 percent believe Israel should freeze Jewish settlement construction on occupied land under a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire. 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