WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS VANDALISE ISRAELI FARM MACHINERY IN DISPUTE OVER LAND OWNERSHIP

Record ID: 399778

  • Title: WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS VANDALISE ISRAELI FARM MACHINERY IN DISPUTE OVER LAND OWNERSHIP
  • Date: 21st June 1996
  • Summary: SAMMOU VILLAGE, WEST BANK (JUNE 21, 1996)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: PALESTINIANS BURNING ISRAELI TRACTORS AND THROWING STONES AT EQUIPMENT (4 SHOTS) 0.58 2. GV: PALESTINIAN LETTING DOWN TRACTOR TYRE AND BURNING TYRE (2 SHOTS) 1.14 3. MV/PAN: BURNING TRACTORS 1.29 4. GV: MAN HOLDING PALESTINIAN FLAG WITH BLACK SMOKE IN
  • Embargoed: 6th July 1996 13:00
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  • Location: SAMMOU, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA3UV1FPUU36ECQYK0FYYONHBSM
  • Story Text: INTRO: Palestinians smashed and burned Israeli farm equipment to protest Jewish road-building near the West Bank town of Hebron on Friday (June 21). The vandalism occurred as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met the Cabinet to discuss redeployment of Israeli soldiers from Hebron.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hundreds of Palestinian villagers, enraged by Israeli plans to confiscate their farming land and build a road for Jewish settlers, burned Israeli construction equipment in the occupied West Bank on Friday (June 21).

    Black smoke rose from a valley near the Arab village of Sammou, south of the city of Hebron, after two tractors and two fuel tanks were set on fire. The villagers used stones to smash six trucks and several air compressors.

    Palestinians said 2,800 hectares (7,000 acres) of land planted with olive trees and used as grazing pastures were to be confiscated by the Israeli authorities for a road between two Jewish settlements.

    Israeli construction crews began work on the road about a month ago.

    The vandalism came as new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met cabinet ministers and generals on Friday to discuss the army redeployment from Hebron promised in a peace deal signed in 1995 by the previous government.

    Israel was to have withdrawn from Hebron on March 28 but delayed its pullout after a wave of Islamic suicide bombings killed 59 people in Israel.

    Palestinian officials say they view redeployment in Hebron as a litmus test for the new government's commitment to peace. Hebron, holy to Moslems and Jews, is the last of seven West Bank cities due to be handed over to Palestinian self-rule.

    Netanyahu's office said no decision was made during the cabinet meeting.


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