ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/TENSION Clashes erupt in West Bank, Israeli PM call for return to peace talks

Record ID: 135612

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/TENSION Clashes erupt in West Bank, Israeli PM call for return to peace talks
  • Date: 14th October 2015
  • Summary: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS THROWING STONES AT ISRAELI SOLDIERS, SMOKE RISING FROM BURNING TYRES ISRAELI MILITARY FIRING TEAR GAS FROM MILITARY VEHICLE TOWARDS PROTESTERS ISRAELI SOLDIER FIRING TEAR GAS PROTESTERS RUNNING AWAY, ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLE FIRING TEAR GAS MORE OF ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLE FIRING TEAR GAS P
  • Embargoed: 29th October 2015 12:00
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    Hundreds of Palestinians, some masked, hurled stones at Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Wednesday (October 14) after a funeral for a man killed in clashes a day earlier.
    Israeli forces fired rubber bullets and threw gas canisters to disperse demonstrators who gathered in Bethlehem's main street following the funeral for 27-year old Mutaz Zawahreh, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes on Tuesday (October 13).
    The clashes came as Israel began setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers on main roads to try to combat the worse spate of violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in years.
    Seven Israelis and 30 Palestinians, including children and attackers, have died in two weeks of violence including stabbings, shootings, car rammings and security crackdowns that have stirred memories of past Palestinian uprisings.
    Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, insisted he wanted peace.
    "Israel wants peace, I want peace. I am interested in the immediate resumption of peace talks with our Palestinian neighbours with no pre-conditions and it will be a difficult negotiation, because in order to achieve peace terrorism must stop and real security arrangements must be implemented on the ground and above all in order for peace to be achieved, the Palestinians must finally recognize the right of the Jewish people's nation state to exist," Netanyahu told parliament.
    The causes of the turmoil are multiple, but Palestinians are angry about what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, an area that is holy to both Muslims and Jews.
    There is also deep-seated frustration with the failure of years of peace efforts to deliver meaningful change, with the Palestinians no closer to statehood and no end to Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
    Much of the violence since the start of October has been carried out by residents of East Jerusalem, the predominantly Arab side of the city. Israel regards all of Jerusalem as an integral part of the country.
    The Palestinians seek a state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
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