Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in protest against Trump's economic peace plan

Record ID: 1420692

  • Title: Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in protest against Trump's economic peace plan
  • Date: 25th June 2019
  • Summary: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (JUNE 25, 2019) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS CLASHING WITH ISRAELI FORCES, GAS BOMB EXPLODING ISRAELI ARMY VEHICLE PASSING BY, INJURED PROTESTER ON THE GROUND PARAMEDICS CARRYING INJURED PROTESTER PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS IN PROTEST CHANTING NEXT TO DONKEY THAT HAS PICTURE OF SAUDI ARABIA'S CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN AND U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON HIM PROTESTERS CHANTING, DONKEY THAT HAS PICTURE OF TRUMP ON HIS FOREHEAD ISRAELI FORCES MOVING DONKEY JOURNALISTS ARGUING WITH ISRAELI FORCES MEMBER MORE OF CLASHES ISRAELI FORCES FIRING AT PROTESTERS ISRAELI ARMY VEHICLE DRIVING AWAY WITH PALESTINIAN FLAG HUNG ON IT BY PROTESTERS AL-BIREH, WEST BANK (JUNE 25, 2019) (REUTERS) ISRAELI SOLDIER FIRING AT PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF PROTESTER CARRYING PALESTINIAN FLAG IN FRONT OF SOLDIERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALESTINIAN POLITICIAN MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI, SAYING: "We are here also to send a message that we will not be deceived by the so called economic plan. There can be no economic solution as a substitute to our freedom and second how can we have economic development when we cannot control our borders, our import, our export, our free market, our freedom of movement and even we do not control the taxes we pay which Israel keeps cutting from time to time. So there is no economic prosperity, it's a deceit that Mr. Kushner is spreading around and we will not be deceived by it." PROTESTERS GATHERED AT PROTEST, GAS BOMBS EXPLODING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING IN PROTEST GAS BOMBS BEING FIRED IN CLASHES KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (JUNE 25, 2019) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS BURNING PHOTOS OF U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU PROTESTERS GATHERED IN PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) KHAN YOUNIS RESIDENT, MOHYE AL-DEEN ABU DAQA, SAYING: "I can assure you that this conference will be a failure even with the attendance of those traitors, who do normalization with the zionist entity. This conference will fail and our people are insisting on bringing down this conference and it will not succeed, not the conference nor the Deal of the Century." HEBRON, WEST BANK (JUNE 25, 2019) (REUTERS) GAS BOMBS BEING FIRED, JOURNALISTS RUNNING, ISRAELI SOLDIERS STANDING PALESTINIAN PROTESTER THROWING BACK GAS BOMB ISRAELI SOLDIER RUNNING PROTESTERS RUNNING WITH BURNING TYRE BURNING TYRE VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SOLDIER FIRING TOWARDS PROTESTERS PROTESTER THROWING ROCK
  • Embargoed: 9th July 2019 15:01
  • Keywords: Gaza West Bank protest strike clashes
  • Location: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA/ AL-BIREH, BETHLEHEM, HEBRON, WEST BANK
  • City: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA/ AL-BIREH, BETHLEHEM, HEBRON, WEST BANK
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AKU7O7B
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces on Tuesday (June 25) across the West Bank against the first stage of President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan.
    The economic part of the plan was to be launched on Tuesday, at a conference the White House touts as a bid to begin drumming up $50 billion in investment but which Palestinians deride as an "economy first" approach doomed to fail.
    Palestinian politician Mustafa Bargouthi, attending a violent protest in the West Bank village of Al-Bireh, said that no economic development is possible in the Palestinian territories as long as Israel controls most aspects of economic activity in Gaza and the West Bank.
    In Gaza, Palestinians burnt pictures of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in continued protests.
    The two-day international meeting in Bahrain, led by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been billed as the first part of Washington's long-delayed broader political blueprint to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which will be unveiled at a later date.
    (Production: Nehad Khalil, Mohammad Abu Ganeyeh, Saed Howari, Mamun Wazwaz, Suheir Sheikh)
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