WEST BANK: TWO PALESTINIAN GUNMEN ARE KILLED AND AN UNIDENTIFIED ISRAELI SERIOUSLY WOUNDED FOLLOWING AN AMBUSH IN HEBRON

Record ID: 377056

  • Title: WEST BANK: TWO PALESTINIAN GUNMEN ARE KILLED AND AN UNIDENTIFIED ISRAELI SERIOUSLY WOUNDED FOLLOWING AN AMBUSH IN HEBRON
  • Date: 8th June 2003
  • Summary: (W6) HEBRON, WEST BANK (JUNE 8, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI FORCES CHECKING HOMES AND ROOFTOPS IN HEBRON FOLLOWING THE AMBUSH (6 SHOTS) 0.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAOV6UH3EP1TMH0DTB477ZWN6V
  • Story Text: Two Palestinian gunmen have been killed and an
    unidentified Israeli has been seriously wounded following an
    ambush in the West Bank city of Hebron, Israel radio has said.


    The violence punctuated vows by Palestinian hardliners to
    defy Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas's bid to make
    good on a promise to demilitarise a 32-month-old uprising for
    statehood, threatening to strangle the latest international
    peace initiative almost at birth.

    Militants opposed decisions at landmark summits which U.S.

    President George W. Bush held in Aqaba, Jordan on Wednesday
    with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and with Arab
    leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt a day earlier.

    The participants endorsed a U.S.-backed "road map" for
    peace between Israel and Palestinians charting an end to
    violence and a start to mutual confidence-building steps leading
    to creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank in
    2005.


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