- Title: JERUSALEM/GAZA/WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS CLASH WITH ISRAELI TROOPS IN HEBRON
- Date: 13th September 1995
- Summary: HEBRON, WEST BANK/ GAZA STRIP AND JERUSALEM SEPTEMBER 13 AND 14, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) HEBRON (SEPTEMBER 14) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SV HUNDREDS OF PALESTINIAN SCHOOL GIRLS AND BOYS MARCHING WITH PLO FLAGS AND PLACARDS, CHANTING SLOGANS (4 SHOTS) 0.34 2. SV SPEAKER CALLS TO CROWD "JEWISH SETTLERS ARE DOGS" (2 SHOTS) 0.41
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- Location: JERUSALEM, GAZA STRIP AND HEBRON, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAEN1LF5T9EPRO3TJ27QPPYJ6C0
- Story Text: Hundreds of Palestinians clashed on Thursday (September 14) with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Residents of the city demonstrated outside a school where Arabs and Jews have clashed three times this week. They threw stones at soldiers who arrived to disperse them.
A Palestinian girl and a CNN cameramen covering the clashes were hit with stones and slightly injured.
Around 400 Jewish settlers live among more than 100,000 Palestinians in Hebron, which has been a flashpoint of violence and a sticking point in the Israeli-Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) talks to expand Palestinian self-rule.
Meanwhile, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Leader Yasser Arafat's spokesman, Marwan Kanafani, on Thursday (September 14) said an accord with Israel on wider Palestinian self-rule could be signed next week if a dispute over the future of Hebron is settled this weekend.
In a rare display of Palestinian optimism in the slow-moving talks, PLO officials said a signing date had been set for September 21 in Washington.
"If we conclude the issue of Hebron and other sticky points today in Eilat and on Sunday, we can sign the final accord next week," Kanafani told Reuters.
Kanafani said the deal could be initialled on Sunday after Arafat and Peres meet and reach an agreement on Hebron, the only Palestinian city in the West Bank with a Jewish population.
Under the 1993 Israel-PLO peace deal, both sides were to have signed an accord by July 1994 on an Israeli troop pullout from West Bank "populated areas" and Palestinian elections. Self-rule is now limited to Gaza and Jericho, in the West Bank.
But Israel delayed the redeployment after a series of suicide bombings by Moslem militants. It now says it must keep some troops in Hebron to protect settlers in the flashpoint city.
On Wednesday (September 13), hundreds of Israelis opposed to the Israel-PLO peace accord fought street battles with police near the Israeli prime minister's Jerusalem home. It was the second anniversary of the deal.
Jerusalem's Paris Square, near Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's heavily-guarded residence, became a battle zone between large contingents of police and right-wing Jews.
A police water cannon fired bursts of blue-dyed water at protesters. Mounted police, swinging batons, charged into the crowd.
At least six protesters were hurt and police said eleven policemen were injured and 22 people arrested.
Demonstrators, many of them religious Jews, held placards with pictures of Rabin and his Palestinian peace partner, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, with the slogan "Blood Brothers".
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