VARIOUS: ISRAELI FORCES CLASH WITH PALESTINIANS AS 'DAY OF LAND' DEMONSTRATIONS END IN VIOLENCE

Record ID: 398978

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAELI FORCES CLASH WITH PALESTINIANS AS 'DAY OF LAND' DEMONSTRATIONS END IN VIOLENCE
  • Date: 30th March 2000
  • Summary: NABLUS, WEST BANK (MARCH 30, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS MARCH THROUGH NABLUS MAIN STREET, SOME CARRYING A CARDBOARD BULLDOZER (3 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SCU: PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR CHANTING (Arabic): The people have to stamp on the Jewish settlers and Palestinian collaborators. 0.21 3. LV: PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR
  • Embargoed: 14th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: NABLUS, BETHLEHEM AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ SAKHNIN, ISRAEL AND GUSH KATIF, GAZA
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA9R1BPJTX3P3TRCDG6DI7BHXHY
  • Story Text: Land Day, often a day of conflict across Israel and
    the West Bank, has again erupted into violence this year as
    clashes broke out between stone-throwing youths and Israeli
    security forces.

    At least 23 Israeli and Palestinian Arabs have been
    injured in clashes during protests in Israel, the West Bank
    and Gaza against the confiscation of land and the spread of
    Jewish settlements.

    At least 23 Israeli and Palestinian Arabs were injured
    in clashes with Israeli security forces on Thursday (March 30)
    during protests against the confiscation of land and the
    spread of Jewish settlements.

    A march of more than ten thousand in the West Bank town of
    Nablus turned violent, with Palestinian youths trading stones
    with Israeli soldiers firing rubber-coated metal bullets,
    after 200 Palestinians marched on a Jewish settlement.

    Five of the protesters were wounded, two in the head, when
    Israeli troops guarding the settlement of Elon Moreh fired
    tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwers.

    In Bethlehem, a few hundred militant members of the Fatah
    faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)
    marched through the centre of the ancient town, firing
    semi-automatic weapons.

    In the Gaza Strip, about 500 Palestinians blocked the
    entrance to the Gush Katif Jewish settlement and held up
    banners that read "Get out of our land".Palestinian police
    kept the protesters away from ranks of Israeli soldiers.

    And hundreds of protesters in a march by some 10,000
    people outside of the Israeli Arab town of Sakhnin, stormed an
    Israeli army base being built on expropriated ground, tore
    down fencing and set fires on the site.

    Eighteen people were treated for injuries after security
    forces responded with tear gas and rubber-coated bullets.

    The protests marked Land Day, an annual event to
    commemorate the killing by Israeli forces of six Arabs in
    Sakhnin during land demonstrations in 1976.Sakhnin and other
    Arab towns in
    Israel also held a one-day general strike.

    Palestinians who remained in Israel after its creation in
    1948 have historically complained of entrenched discrimination
    and the loss of lands confiscated by the authorities to build
    Jewish towns and military bases.

    The land protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip took on
    special significance this year given a pledge by Palestinian
    President Yasser Arafat to declare an independent state in
    2000
    with or without a final peace deal with Israel.

    He told Palestinians in a televised address on Wednesday
    that Israel had "raped" their homeland and "colonised (it) by
    the force of occupation".


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