ISRAEL/GAZA: A PALESTINIAN GUNMAN HAS OPENED FIRE ON A CAR IN CENTRAL ISRAEL/ISRAELI FORCES HAVE DESTROYED SEVERAL PALESTINIAN HOUSES

Record ID: 377085

  • Title: ISRAEL/GAZA: A PALESTINIAN GUNMAN HAS OPENED FIRE ON A CAR IN CENTRAL ISRAEL/ISRAELI FORCES HAVE DESTROYED SEVERAL PALESTINIAN HOUSES
  • Date: 17th June 2003
  • Summary: (W8) EYAL JUNCTION, ISRAEL (JUNE 17, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN FROM ISRAELI SECURITY AND RESCUE SQUADS ON SITE OF SHOOTING TO BULLET-RIDDLED VEHICLE ON STREET 0.20 2. SLV SECURITY AND AMBULANCES AT THE SCENE (2 SHOTS) 0.56 3. SV ISRAELI SOLDIER WEEPING, BEING COMFORTED 1.01 4. SLV MORE OF SECURITY ON SITE 1.24 5. S
  • Embargoed: 2nd July 2003 13:00
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  • Location: EYAL JUNCTION, PETAH-TIKVA, TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/GAZA
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  • Country: Gaza Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA44DG359GQJ0TE9AZVSUH4NM9H
  • Story Text: A Palestinian gunman has opened fire on a car in
    central Israel, killing a seven-year-old girl. Israeli
    government spokesman Avi Pazner condemned the attack.

    In the southern part of the Gaza Strip Israeli forces have
    destroyed several Palestinian houses.



    Gunmen killed an Israeli girl on a road in central
    Israel on Tuesday (June 17), feeding a cycle of violence that
    has battered a peace plan U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
    will try to rescue in a new Middle East visit on Friday (June
    20).

    Medics said the dead girl was seven and identified two
    people wounded in the attack as her five-year-old sister and
    her father.

    The attack on a car near Kibbutz Eyal late on Tuesday was
    launched shortly after Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud
    Abbas failed in another bid to persuade militants to call a
    truce with Israel.

    There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
    shooting which the army said was carried out by Palestinians.

    Israeli Government spokesman Avi Pazner said it was up to
    the Palestinian Authority to stop the attacks against Israel.

    If it failed to do so Israel had "pledged that we will do it
    ourselves and take all necessary measures to make this
    bloodshed stop."
    In the southern Gaza Strip Israeli Defence Force soldiers
    demolished homes which they said belonged to Palestinian
    militants.

    More than 50 people have died in tit-for-tat
    Israeli-Palestinian attacks since Abbas, U.S. President George
    W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon affirmed a
    peace "road map" at a summit in Aqaba, Jordan, on June 4.

    The "road map" envisages the creation of a Palestinian
    state by 2005, mandates a crackdown on militant groups along
    with Israeli troop pullbacks in the West Bank and Gaza.

    Facing the prospect of the collapse of the most ambitious
    Middle East peace plan in more than two years, the United
    States said Powell would come to Israel on Friday to mediate.

    Sharon has ruled out concessions unless Abbas subdues
    Hamas, a fundamentalist Islamic group at the forefront of
    suicide bombings that have killed scores of Israelis since the
    start of a Palestinian uprising for statehood in September
    2000.



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