GAZA: THE PALESTINIAN CABINET VOTES TO APPROVE A NEW PEACE DEAL WITH ISRAEL

Record ID: 328453

  • Title: GAZA: THE PALESTINIAN CABINET VOTES TO APPROVE A NEW PEACE DEAL WITH ISRAEL
  • Date: 7th September 1999
  • Summary: GAZA CITY/ GAZA STRIP (SEPTEMBER 6, 1999) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT'S OFFICE 0.04 2. SV/LV/MCU ARAFAT AND MINISTERS AT MEETING (5 SHOTS) 0.27 3. MCU CAMERAMAN 0.31 4. MCU (ARABIC) MAHMOUD ABBASS PLO EXUCATIVE COMMITTEE SECRETARY GENERAL SAYING: The PLO exucative committee and the Palestinian leadership approved the Sharm al-Sheikh memorandum. 0.40 5. MCU CAMERAMAN 0.42 6. MCU (ENGLISH) ABBASS SAYING: The PLO executive committee and the Palestinian leadership ratified the memorandum of Sharm al-Sheikh. 0.55 7. MCU GUARD 0.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 1999 13:00
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  • Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA18J1BMQNDQIZES4KLC0QPF5T2
  • Story Text: The Palestinian cabinet has voted to approve a new
    peace deal with Israel and made clear that it would not
    tolerate attempts by internal opponents to undermine the
    agreement by violence.

    "The PLO leadership approved the Sharm al-Sheikh
    memorandum" Mahmoud Abbass the PLO executive committee
    secretary General told reporters after the meeting on Monday
    (September 6).

    The cabinet also called on Barak's government to halt
    Jewish settlement activity on occupied land in the West Bank
    and Gaza.

    The militant Palestinian Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic
    Jihad have killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings since
    Arafat sealed his first interim peace deal with Israel in 1993
    and have branded the latest agreement a sell-out.

    Hours after the deal was signed, two suspected car bombs
    exploded in two towns in northern Israel, killing the three
    occupants in the vehicles.Security sources said on Monday
    that police believed the men were Israeli Arabs.


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