GAZA: THE UNITED STATES AND EGYPT SEND ENVOYS TO HELP ISRAEL AND PALESTINE DRAW BACK FROM CONFRONTATION

Record ID: 338237

  • Title: GAZA: THE UNITED STATES AND EGYPT SEND ENVOYS TO HELP ISRAEL AND PALESTINE DRAW BACK FROM CONFRONTATION
  • Date: 16th June 2003
  • Summary: (U6) GAZA (JUNE 15, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. MV EGYPTIAN DELEGATION ARRIVING FOR MEETING WITH FATAH FACTION DELEGATION 0.05 2. SLV MEDIA RUNNING; SLV EGYPTIAN DELEGATION LEAVING MEETING WITH FATAH AT NIGHT (4 SHOTS) 0.37 3. S;V/MV EGYPTIAN DELEGATION ENTERING MEETING WITH HAMAS DELEGATIONS (6 SHOTS) 1.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: GAZA
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA3GKAR96JED9W8EEDR6FXK8XYH
  • Story Text: The United States and Egypt, concerned about the
    killing of more than 50 people in Israeli-Palestinian violence
    over the past week, have sent envoys to help the sides draw
    back from confrontation and put the peace plan into motion.

    Egyptian security officials travelled to Gaza in a bid to
    persuade militants to resume talks with Palestinian Prime
    Minister Mahmoud Abbas on a deal to end attacks on Israelis.

    Egyptian security officials travelled to Gaza on Sunday
    (June 15, 2003) in a bid to persuade militants to resume talks
    with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on a deal to end
    attacks on Israelis.

    They later met with representatives of Hamas.

    Israel and the Palestinians pursued a security deal on
    Sunday focussed on an Israeli troop
    pullback in return for a crackdown on Islamic militants after
    a week of violence that battered a U.S.-backed peace plan.

    The United States and Egypt, concerned about the killing
    of more than 50 people in Israeli-Palestinian violence over
    the
    past week, sent envoys to try to move the plan along.

    A deal was shaping up for an Israeli troop withdrawal
    from the northern Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of
    Bethlehem in
    exchange for a Palestinian Authority pledge to assume security
    control of the two areas and rein in militants.

    Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr said details
    would be discussed at a meeting on Sunday between Israeli
    Major-General Amos Gilad and Palestinian security chief
    Mohammed Dahlan, a follow-up to talks the two held on
    Saturday.

    The United States has appealed for restraint from both
    sides after a surge of bloodshed that included the killing of
    four soldiers in Gaza, a Palestinian suicide bombing on a Jerusalem
    bus and seven Israeli air strikes on militants.

    U.S. President George W. Bush's envoy, veteran diplomat
    John Wolf, met Israeli domestic security chief Avi Dichter and
    Dov Weisglass, a top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
    Sharon, on Saturday.

    Bush followed this on Sunday with a blast at the
    Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has been behind much
    of the anti-Israeli violence and rejects peace proposals.


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