VARIOUS: FIGHTING ERUPTS BETWEEN ISRAELI FORCES AND PALESTINIAN GUNMEN CASTING SHADOW OVER PEACE TALKS

Record ID: 376252

  • Title: VARIOUS: FIGHTING ERUPTS BETWEEN ISRAELI FORCES AND PALESTINIAN GUNMEN CASTING SHADOW OVER PEACE TALKS
  • Date: 20th August 2001
  • Summary: (W3) NEVE YAACOV SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK (AUGUST 18, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV ISRAELI POLICE NEAR BUS THAT WAS ATTACKED; SCU BULLET HOLES IN BUS; MV BUS INTERIORS; SCU BULLET HOLES IN BUS WINDOWS; MV ISRAELI INVESTIGATORS NEAR BUS (7 SHOTS) 0.32 (W3) KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (AUGUST 19) (REUTERS) 2. SLV DAMAGE TO PALESTINIAN SECURITY POST; MV PALEST
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2001 13:00
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  • Location: NABLUS AND NEVE YAACOV SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK; KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA AND JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAA4CPJVV8KXT4PGC0QL43X2870
  • Story Text: Fierce fighting has erupted between Israeli forces and
    Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip overnight, casting a
    shadow on diplomatic efforts to start talks between the sides.

    Security forces from both sides in the continuing
    conflict assessed the damage from another night of violence on
    Sunday (August 19).

    Two Israelis, including a six-year-old, were lightly
    wounded in a shooting attack on a bus near the Jewish
    settlement of Neve Yaacov on the outskirts of Jerusalem on
    Saturday night (August 18).

    Elsewhere at least two Israeli missiles slammed into a
    Palestinian security post in Gaza late on Saturday, just hours
    after Palestinians launched seven mortar bombs at a Jewish
    settlement in the strip. Three Palestinians were wounded in
    the strike. On Sunday morning Palestinian security forces
    could be seen sifting through the debris.

    In another incident a six-month-old Palestinian baby was
    wounded by bullets when Israeli troops shot at a car near a
    checkpoint near the West Bank town of Qalqilya.

    A Palestinian official said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon
    Peres had contacted some Palestinian representatives in
    new effort to end more than 10 months of violence.

    As the Israeli cabinet started its weekly meeting on
    Sunday (August 19), Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
    spokesman Raanan Gissin said Israel would continue to work on
    two fronts, to fight terror and to resume political contacts
    with the Palestinians.

    Meanwhile, Israeli police beefed up security in Israeli
    cities as the country went on high alert because of warnings
    that Palestinian suicide bombers were planning a fresh spate
    of attacks.

    This did not prevent Israeli troops from firing at a group
    of Palestinians walking on an unpaved road near the city of
    Nablus early on Sunday, killing one man, Mueen Abu Lawi, and
    injuring five others.


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