GAZA/JERUSALEM: AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WOUNDED IN A GUN BATTLE THAT FLARED WHEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS BULLDOZED PALESTINIAN BUILDINGS IN A REFUGEE CAMP

Record ID: 377115

  • Title: GAZA/JERUSALEM: AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WOUNDED IN A GUN BATTLE THAT FLARED WHEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS BULLDOZED PALESTINIAN BUILDINGS IN A REFUGEE CAMP
  • Date: 10th May 2001
  • Summary: (U2) GAZA (MAY 10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV OF NIGHT EXCHANGE OF FIRE BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN FORCES 0.22 2. SLV AMBULANCE 0.29 3. SLV/SV WOUNDED PALESTINIANS IN HOSPITAL (5 SHOTS) 1.00 4. SLV AMBULANCE LEAVING 1.08 5. SLV/LV NIGHT PICTURES OF DEBRIS AT THE SITE OF THE BATTLE (2 SHOTS) 1.29 6. SLV P
  • Embargoed: 25th May 2001 13:00
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  • Location: GAZA/JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Gaza Jerusalem
  • Reuters ID: LVA7D4XE71KY1P97PUUXSO7QEGZT
  • Story Text: At least seven people have been wounded in a gun battle
    that flared when Israeli soldiers bulldozed Palestinian
    buildings in a refugee camp near the Gaza-Egypt border.

    Israel has said that it will use any necessary means to
    end Palestinian attacks on Israelis. Palestinian officials
    have condemned the latest Israeli incursion, adding that
    Israel is declaring war against them.



    Israeli soldiers and Palestinians fought a gun battle
    in southern Gaza early on Thursday (May 10), when Israeli
    troops destroyed Palestinian buildings adjacent to an
    Israeli-controlled road along the Gaza-Egypt border.

    Six Palestinians and a soldier were wounded and at least
    three houses and two Palestinian police posts were destroyed
    by Israeli bulldozers in Yebna refugee camp near the Egyptian
    border.

    Both the Palestinians and the Israeli army claimed the
    area where the demolitions took place was under their control
    according to a 1994 interim peace agreement.

    Israel said that it will continue leading such an
    operation in order to prevent Palestinian attacks on Israelis.


    "In the future, if the Palestinian Authority does not
    fulfil its part, we will continue to make these incursions as
    required by the military situation on the ground, in order to
    prevent attacks against our citizens" said Ariel Sharon's
    spokesperson Raanan Gissin.

    Palestinians say that Israel is waging war against them
    and that international effort must be made to end these
    attacks.

    "There is a declared war by the government of Israel
    against the Palestinian people despite all the efforts to
    revive the peace process", said Nabil Shath, Palestinian
    Minister of Planning and International Cooperations.

    Meanwhile, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has met
    with Israeli opposition member Yossi Beilin in Gaza to discuss
    the ongoing violence.

    The Palestinians say Israel's policy of settling the
    West Bank and Gaza Strip, lands it wants for a future state,
    has fuelled its uprising which erupted in late September in
    the vacuum of deadlocked peace negotiations.

    At least 409 Palestinians, 79 Israelis and 13 Israeli
    Arabs have been killed in more than seven months of fighting.




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