WEST BANK: VIOLENCE ERUPTS AS ANGER MOUNTS FOLLOWING ISRAELI TAKEOVER OF PALESTINIAN LANDMARK

Record ID: 400226

  • Title: WEST BANK: VIOLENCE ERUPTS AS ANGER MOUNTS FOLLOWING ISRAELI TAKEOVER OF PALESTINIAN LANDMARK
  • Date: 15th August 2001
  • Summary: JENIN, WEST BANK (AUGUST 14, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. NIGHT SCENE WITH LIGHT FROM SHOOTING AND FLARE OVER JENIN; FLARE FALLING; LIGHT FROM SHOOTING FLICKERS OVER HORIZON; SLV CAR DRIVING THROUGH DESERTED STREET; SLV PEOPLE EMERGING ONTO STREET; SLV FLARE OVERHEARD, EMPTY STREET; SLV MEN STANDING IN ROAD, LISTENING (5 SHOTS) 0.36 2. SLV AMBULANCE DRIVING
  • Embargoed: 30th August 2001 13:00
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  • Location: JENIN, GILO SETTLEMENT AND BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA6KGESTDLJ03TIFRSO4S8TSPZV
  • Story Text: Violence has erupted across the West Bank as anger
    mounts following Israel's takeover of a Palestinian landmark
    in Jerusalem last Friday and Israel's response to the
    suicide bombings becomes increasingly heavy-handed.

    The latest shooting flared after Israeli tanks and
    bulldozers thrust into the northern West Bank town of Jenin
    overnight and destroyed a police building in an incursion the
    Israeli army said was retaliation for suicide bombings by
    Palestinian militants.

    Israeli tanks and bulldozers rumbled into the West Bank
    town of Jenin in the deepest military thrust into Palestinian
    territory in 10 months of violence.

    Dore Gold a spokesman for Israeli prime minister Ariel
    Sharon said, "This is not an act about revenge, this is an act
    about accountability. Jenin had become a hub of repeated
    attacks throughout northern Israel," he said.

    Palestinian cabinet minister Hassan Asfour said, "What
    happened last night, early morning, in Jenin, this is a
    new step from the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian
    area and I think they (the Israelis) will continue for (with)
    that," he said.

    Three Palestinians and two Israelis were wounded on
    Tuesday (August 14) in separate incidents as the fresh
    fighting erupted.

    The Palestinians were injured during an exchange of fire
    between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers in the city of
    Bethlehem south of Jerusalem.

    Palestinians shot and wounded an Israeli settler woman and
    as a two-year-old girl, as the woman drove near the Tarkumiya
    junction close to the West Bank city of Hebron.

    A heavy gunbattle also flared between Palestinian-ruled
    Beit Jala south of Jerusalem and the Jewish settlement of
    Gilo, which Israelis regard as a neighbourhood of Jerusalem.

    No injuries were reported.

    Almost 680 people have been killed, including more than
    500 Palestinians and about 150 Israelis, since the uprising
    started last September.


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