WEST BANK/GAZA: ISRAELI TROOPS SHOOT ON INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS TRYING TO RETRIEVE BODY OF AN ARMED PALESTINIAN SHOT DEAD IN A GAZA STRIP BORDER ZONE
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WEST BANK/GAZA: ISRAELI TROOPS SHOOT ON INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS TRYING TO RETRIEVE BODY OF AN ARMED PALESTINIAN SHOT DEAD IN A GAZA STRIP BORDER ZONE
- Title: WEST BANK/GAZA: ISRAELI TROOPS SHOOT ON INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS TRYING TO RETRIEVE BODY OF AN ARMED PALESTINIAN SHOT DEAD IN A GAZA STRIP BORDER ZONE
- Date: 1st February 2003
- Summary: (W5) RAFAH, GAZA (FEBRUARY 1, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV: INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS ENTERING THE RAFAH BORDER CROSSING TO PICK UP THE BODY 0.05 2. MV: PALESTINIAN PASSENGERS AT THE CROSSING 0.09 3. MV: ISRAELI CHECKPOINT 0.15 4. SV: INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS LEAVING TO RETRIEVE DEAD BODY 0.28 5. SLV: BORDER CHECKPOINT
- Embargoed: 16th February 2003 12:00
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- Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK / RAFAH, GAZA
- City:
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAAQP0PL8WL5GI222ZO2E2SWZZ2
- Story Text: Israeli troops have shot dead an armed Palestinian in a
Gaza Strip border zone. International protesters who came to
pick up the man's body from the border were fired at by the
Israeli forces, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians have been injured in Hebron as
Israeli forces continued to impose closure on the city and
Palestinian youths hurled stones at tanks.
Israeli troops shot dead an armed Palestinian in a Gaza
Strip border zone on Saturday (February 1) and imposed a
curfew on the West Bank city of Hebron in a renewed military
crackdown following Israeli national elections.
An Israeli military source said soldiers spotted an armed
Palestinian approaching the Gaza border with Egypt near the
volatile town of Rafah and opened fire.
The man was carrying an assault rifle and ammunition clips,
the source said.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
identified the dead man as a 19-year-old member of the
group, which has carried out attacks on Israelis in a
28-month-old Palestinian uprising for statehood.
International protesters walked to the border in order to
pick up the body.
They were shot at.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops imposed a city-wide curfew on
the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday as part of an
open-ended sweep for Palestinian militants which began on
Thursday (January 30).
A Palestinian woman returning home from hospital was
wounded by Israeli fire when troops enforcing the curfew shot
at her taxi, city residents said.
At the centre of the city, Palestinian youths hurled
stones and water pipes at the tanks, which were driving down
the main streets.
The youths burnt tires in the streets, and Israeli border police
arrived at the scene to disperse the protesters.
Witnesses said one child was injured when he was hit on
the head by a stray stone.
The Israeli raid on Hebron started on Thursday (January
30), following the killing of three soldiers outside a Jewish
settlement a week ago near the city.
On Friday (January 31), Israeli army engineers blew up two
houses belonging to Palestinian militants.
One house belonged to a Palestinian convicted of shooting
to death an Israeli baby nearly two years ago in a Jewish
settler enclave in the city.
The other home belonged to a militant who blew up in a taxi while
on his way to carry out a suicide bombing, the army said.
Some 450 settlers live in heavily guarded compounds in
Hebron, home to 150,000 Palestinians.
Final results of Tuesday's Israeli parliamentary election
gave Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's victorious right-wing Likud
party 38 seats in the 120-member parliament, one better than
in earlier tallies.
Short of a ruling majority, Sharon faces an uphill battle
to create the unity coalition he says is needed to confront
what he calls terrorism and the prospect of a U.S. war on Iraq
that
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