ISRAEL: THREE MEMBERS OF HAMAS GUERRILLA GROUP KILLED IN FIGHTING WITH ISRAELI FORCES IN TOWN OF TAIBE

Record ID: 375834

  • Title: ISRAEL: THREE MEMBERS OF HAMAS GUERRILLA GROUP KILLED IN FIGHTING WITH ISRAELI FORCES IN TOWN OF TAIBE
  • Date: 2nd March 2000
  • Summary: TAIBE, ISRAEL (MARCH 3, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE: HOUSE WHERE GUERILLAS WERE HIDING 0.07 2. LV: ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES NEAR THE HOUSE 0.14 3. LV: SECURITY FORCES HIDING BEHIND FENCES NEAR THE HOUSE; HELICOPTER (3 SHOTS) 0.27 4. GV/LV: BUILDING; RESIDENTS LOOKING AT THE EVENTS (2 SHOTS) 0.35 5. LV: SNIPERS STANDING NEAR THE HOUSE
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2000 12:00
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  • Location: TAIBE, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA3V21XSCEWOTG5K30JBWXHI89D
  • Story Text: At least three Palestinians belonging to the Hamas
    guerrilla group have been killed in a blast and exchange of
    gunfire with Israeli forces in a northern Arab Israeli town.

    At least three Palestinians, who belonged to the Hamas
    guerilla group, were killed on Thursday (March 2) during a
    day-long standoff with Israeli forces in the northern Arab
    Israeli town of Taibe.

    Israeli Police Commissioner Yehuda Vilk said it was
    "very possible" a fourth guerrilla had been killed but
    confirmation would come only on Friday when a search of the
    site was completed.

    One guerrilla was captured and an Israeli paramilitary
    border police was wounded.

    Maintaining the siege, and believing that at least two
    more guerrillas were inside, police sent in an
    explosives-sniffing dog.Vilk said it was killed when a charge
    went off.

    Hundreds of people stood watching the stand-off from the
    street or from roofs of neighbouring buildings.

    Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh identified the
    guerrillas as "a group from Hamas" equipped with demolition
    charges and explosives.He said Israel assumed they had
    planned to carry out an attack in one of its cities.

    The presence of the suspected Hamas men in an Israeli Arab
    village raised anew questions in Israel about cooperation
    between Palestinian militants and Arab citizens of the Jewish
    state.Hamas opposes Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.

    In Gaza, Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin said:
    "We don't have any details on what the Israeli government
    is talking about (in Taibe) but based on what we are going
    through on a daily basis, we say that our people will not give
    up and resistance will continue until we get our rights.
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