- Title: ISRAEL: ISRAELIS IN THE WEST BANK PROTEST AGAINST ISRAELI PULLOUT
- Date: 3rd July 1995
- Summary: KFAR SABA, WEST BANK (3 JULY 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1.SV/PAN CROWDS WITH FLAGS / SINGING (3 SHOTS) 0.32 2.SV ISRAELI OPPOSITION LEADER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SHAKING HANDS WITH PROTESTERS (3 SHOTS) 0.54 3.SV CROWD SHOUTING / PLACARD SHOWING ARAFAT WITH A GUN AND READING "WOULD YOU WANT HIM AS YOUR NEIGHBOUR? NEITHER DO WE"
- Embargoed: 18th July 1995 13:00
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- Location: KFAR SABA, CENTRAL ISRAEL
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA5X5LWJEE1QDEVR27DWIRHEZUN
- Story Text: Thousands of Israelis protested in the central West Bank town of Kfar Saba on Monday (July 3) against an Israeli pullout as a dispute over Israeli troop redeployment held up new high-level talks with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
"We will not retreat backwards. We're going forward," opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu told the cheering crowd, estimated by police at 30,000, on Monday night. Kfar Saba is close to the West Bank town of Qalqilya.
Netanyahu said the troop redeployment would endanger the security of the 100,000 settlers and thousands of other Israelis who live near the West Bank, home to one million Palestinians.
Disagreement over the extent of the redeployment delayed fresh talks between PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on expanding Palestinian self-rule to the West Bank.
Arafat and Peres failed in all-night talks on Saturday to meet a July 1 deadline for an agreement on pulling back Israeli troops from West Bank population centres.
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