WEST BANK: ISRAELI ARMY FIRE STUN GRENADES AND GUNS IN CLASHES

Record ID: 377116

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI ARMY FIRE STUN GRENADES AND GUNS IN CLASHES
  • Date: 23rd October 2003
  • Summary: (W7)RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 21, 2003)(REUTERS) 1. SLV YOUTHS THROWING STONES AT ISRAELI ARMY; ISRAELI ARMY TRUCKS PULLING UP; SOLDIERS TAKING POSITION (5 SHOTS) 0.41 (U6) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS) 2. ISRAELI ARMY VEHICLES PULLING UP; VEHICLES STATIONARY, STUN GRENADE GOING OFF; VEHICLES DRIVING ROUND SQUARE, ST
  • Embargoed: 7th November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVACBAAB3ZKFY1QTAUG5EJAYCL3W
  • Story Text: Israeli army fires stun grenades, guns in Ramallah clashes.

    Israeli forces raided Ramallah, the West Bank city
    where Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is headquartered
    on Tuesday (October 21), encircling a mosque using live
    fire and tear gas to disperse hundreds of stone-throwers.

    There were no immediate reports of casualties in the
    raid on Ramallah, witnessed by Reuters correspondents.

    Israeli military sources denied troops used live fire
    and described the raid as a swoop for militants waging a
    three-year-old uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

    Tension in Ramallah has run especially high since
    Israel's security cabinet decided in principle last month
    to "remove" Arafat for fomenting violence. Arafat denies
    the charge.

    Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat denounced
    Tuesday's action as "a very dangerous escalation".

    Troops and tanks rolled into Ramallah and surrounded
    its Abdel Nasser mosque shortly after evening prayers,
    declaring a curfew in the area. Hundreds of youths came out
    to throw stones at the soldiers, who fired back using live
    fire and tear gas.

    Tuesday's raid came hours after the Palestinian
    president called on international peace mediators to
    restrain Israel's military measures.

    After Israel killed 10 Palestinians, most of them
    civilians, in air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday,
    Arafat demanded immediate action from the international
    patrons of a U.S.-backed peace road map "to stop this
    military madness".


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