GAZA/WEST BANK: THE GUNFIRE AND SHELLING IN GAZA MAKE RESIDENTS FLEE THEIR HOMES/MOURNERS ATTEND FUNERALS FOR THE LATEST VICTIMS OF THE FIGHTING

Record ID: 377092

  • Title: GAZA/WEST BANK: THE GUNFIRE AND SHELLING IN GAZA MAKE RESIDENTS FLEE THEIR HOMES/MOURNERS ATTEND FUNERALS FOR THE LATEST VICTIMS OF THE FIGHTING
  • Date: 24th November 2000
  • Summary: GAZA (NOVEMBER 24, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. NIGHT SHOTS OF KHAN YUNIS CITY/ GUNFIGHT BETWEEN ISRAELI ARMY AND PALESTINIANS/ SOUND OF GUNFIRE AND SHELLING 0.17 NABLUS, WEST BANK (NOVEMBER 25, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. SV BLOOD ON THE GROUND IN A DAMAGED BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.28 3. LV EMERGENCY SERVICES AT THE SCENE 0.
  • Embargoed: 9th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: GAZA/ WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVABANSQO8FSB10D1DKBLJNCGWQ9
  • Story Text: Two Palestinian brothers killed overnight were buried
    on Saturday (November 25, 2000).

    A pitched night time battle between Israeli troops and
    Palestinian gunmen left the two dead and one more Palestinian
    in a serious condition in hospital. The gunfire and shelling
    made residents of the Gaza Strip flee their homes.



    Thousands of mourners have attended funerals for the
    latest victims of the fighting in the Middle East. Two
    Palestinian brothers, aged 28 and 26, were killed in the West
    Bank village of Kafr Kahlil. Witnesses said they died when
    heavy-calibre Israeli fire hit an empty house they were using
    as cover.

    Funerals were also planned for Saturday (November 25)
    for two Palestinian protesters shot dead by Israeli troops in
    clashes in the West Bank towns of Jenin and Qalqilya.

    A 25-year-old Israeli army officer, a Jewish settler and
    four Palestinians died during the day on Friday and in the
    early hours of Saturday. This brings the death toll in eight
    weeks of violence to 269, mostly Palestinians.

    The renewed fighting comes as Israeli Prime Minister
    Ehud Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed to
    revive defunct liaison offices.

    Overnight on Friday in Khan Younis, a large Palestinian
    town on the Mediterranean coast, there were exchanges of fire
    between the two sides.

    In Gaza many Palestinians took their belongings and fled.

    Saturday morning saw tensions rising once again in the
    West Bank as the Israeli army bulldozed Palestinian vineyards
    in Hebron, the reason given was that this was an effort to
    stop Palestinians shooting at Jewish settlers in the disputed
    territories.

    One of the vineyard owners engaged in a dispute with
    Israeli soldiers on his land saying: "Do you hear what I am
    saying, you should leave, get out!"
    An Israeli government source says Israel has agreed to
    lift its blockade of Palestinian cities by the start, either
    on Sunday or Monday, of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but
    only "on condition that violence stops from the Palestinian
    side".




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