WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: FIREFIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN TROOPS REUPTS IN HEBRON AND BEIT JALA/EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA MEETS ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES

Record ID: 376132

  • Title: WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: FIREFIGHTING BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN TROOPS REUPTS IN HEBRON AND BEIT JALA/EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA MEETS ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES
  • Date: 3rd September 2001
  • Summary: (W7) HEBRON, WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 3, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV ISRAELI TANK FIRING FROM A HILL TOP NEAR HEBRON (3 SHOTS) 0.25 2. LV PALESTINIAN CAR BEING HIT BY BULLETS 0.37 3. SV MORE OF ISRAELI TANK FIRING 0.52 4. LV/SLV TRUCK DRIWING AWAY/PALESTINIANS RUNNING AWAY (2 SHOTS) 1.10 5. LV DAMAGED CAR 1.15 6. SV PALESTINIAN WOUNDED ARRIVING HEBRON HOSPITAL 1.26 7. SV MEDICAL TEAM TREATING WOUNDED (2 SHOTS) 1.42 8. SV/MCU WOUNDED ON BED (3 SHOTS) 1.54 9. MCU FAMILY MEMBERS CRYING OUTSIDE HOSPITAL (4 SHOTS) 2.22 10. SV MAN TAKEN ON STRETCHER IN HOSPITAL 2.30 11. SLV EXTERIOR OF HEBRON HOSPITAL 2.34 (W5) BEIT JALA,WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 3,2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 12. LV/GV ISRAELI TANK ON A HILL (AUDIO OF MACHINEGUN) (2 SHOTS) 3.01 (W5)DURA, NEAR HEBRON, WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 3,2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. PAN PALESTINIAN POLICE BUILDING WHICH WAS STRUCK BY ISRAELI MISSILES FIRED BY HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS 3.11 14. SLV/SV/LV DAMAGE TO POLICE BUILDING INTERIOR (8 SHOTS) 4.02 15. SV WOUNDED TAKEN AWAY IN AMBULANCE 4.12 (W7) JERUSALEM, (SEPTEMBER 3, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 16. SV ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES MEETING EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA (3 SHOTS) 4.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th September 2001 13:00
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  • Location: BEIT JALA, WEST BANK / / HEBRON, WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA3HGJNBKQZ3TBU9D4TOCJP5MJ8
  • Story Text: In the West Bank town of Hebron one Palestinian was
    killed and at least seven others wounded in a firefight
    between Israeli and Palestinian troops, a firefight also
    erupted in Beit Jala -- a town which Israeli troops occupied
    briefly last month before bowing to international pressure and
    withdrawing.



    Earlier in the day, several car bombs exploded around
    Jerusalem and a Palestinian Police building in Hebron was hit
    by a missile.

    European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana,
    meeting Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat in the West
    Bank city of Jericho, said all efforts were being made to
    initiate positive contact between Israelis and the
    Palestinians despite the violence.

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
    a Marxist group, claimed responsibility for the blasts in
    Jerusalem which injured five people. The bombings come a week
    after Israel assassinated the PFLP leader in a missile strike.

    Three of the bombs exploded in Jerusalem's French Hill,
    parts of which were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East
    war. One exploded in a car, injuring two passersby, another
    exploded near an apartment building and a third under a truck.

    The fourth bomb exploded under a truck in the settlement
    of Gilo, injuring three people. Attacks on Gilo, built on land
    occupied by Israel in the 1967 war, are especially sensitive
    because most Israelis regard it as part of Jerusalem.

    Israeli helicopter gunships responded to the bombings by
    launching a missile strike against the office of the
    Palestinian General Intelligence service in the West Bank town
    of Dura, near Hebron. Witnesses said three people were
    slightly wounded.

    The missiles punched holes in the roof of the one-storey
    building, wrecking the offices within. Several cars parked
    outside were reduced to charred, mangled wreckage.

    The Israeli army said the strike was its answer to
    Monday's bombings and attacks across the West Bank the day
    before.

    At least 551 Palestinians and 157 Israelis have now been
    killed since the start last September of the Palestinian
    uprising against Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West
    Bank after peace talks stalled.




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