VARIOUS: VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN ISRAELI FORCES AND PALESTINIANS CONTINUE AS DOCTORS REPORT SIX MORE PALESTINIANS KILLED
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VARIOUS: VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN ISRAELI FORCES AND PALESTINIANS CONTINUE AS DOCTORS REPORT SIX MORE PALESTINIANS KILLED
- Title: VARIOUS: VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN ISRAELI FORCES AND PALESTINIANS CONTINUE AS DOCTORS REPORT SIX MORE PALESTINIANS KILLED
- Date: 30th September 2000
- Summary: GAZA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. MV PALESTINIAN POLICE AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS EXCHANGE INTENSIVE VOLLEYS OF LIVE FIRE (4 SHOTS) 0.22 2. SLV INJURED BEING CARRIED AWAY 0.28 3. SLV PALESTINIANS HIDING BEHIND A WALL 0.32 4. SLV HEAVY EXCHANGE OF FIRE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN POLICE AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS AROUND A HOUSE 0.37 HEBRO
- Embargoed: 15th October 2000 13:00
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- Location: HEBRON, NABLUS, BETHLEHEM AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ GAZA/ JERUSALEM
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA4JY38SPOX8ZSRDQ8QQBEY5Y7X
- Story Text: Palestinian doctors have reported that at
least six Palestinians were on Saturday (September 30) in
clashes with Israeli security forces. This brings to 12
the total number of deaths, so far, in three days of violent
clashes in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Hundreds of Palestinians
have been wounded.
Palestinian police and Israeli soldiers exchanged live
fire in Gaza on Saturday (September 30).
Palestinian forces say 300 people have been injured in
Gaza alone.
In the divided West Bank city of Hebron, thousands of
Palestinians attacked Israeli posts.
Pitched battles were fought between Israeli soldiers and
Palestinian youths in the streets of Hebron.
Witnesses say 60 people were hurt in clashes there.
Clashes flared on Thursday after right-wing Israeli leader
Ariel Sharon, who is reviled by Palestinians, visited a sacred
site in Jerusalem known to Jews as Temple Mount, and the
Noble Sanctuary or al-Haram al-Sharif to Muslims. Some critics
said his visit "defiled" Islam's third most important shrine.
Violence then erupted on Friday at Al Aqsa mosque between
Israeli police and Moslem worshipers. It later spread to East
Jerusalem and the West Bank . Four died in the clashes and at
least 90 people were wounded.
Most of Saturday's fighting has pitted stone-throwing
Palestinians against heavily-armed Israeli security forces.
But Palestinians also opened fire in some protests on Saturday.
A member of the Palestinian parliament, Abbas Zaki, said
Saturday's demonstrations were sparked by the deaths of
Palestinians at Al Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinian leaders had called a one-day general strike in
memory of Palestinians killed on Friday.
"We are demonstrating in support of the martyrs who died
in Al Aqsa (on Friday). And because of the great danger that
we are facing now, we dont care about casualties. Israel is
firing live ammunition and I have proof," Zaki said.
Israel denied using live ammunition on Friday but
acknowledged it had been used in isolated cases on Saturday.
One 14-year-old boy was shot dead in the West Bank city
of Nablus, taking the Palestinian toll casualty toll to at
least seven.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched towards an army
checkpoint in Nablus and doctors say at least 40 people were
hurt in those clashes.
Palestinian police and Israeli soldiers also exchanged
live fire in Nablus as Palestinians and Israeli security
forces fought with guns, sticks and rocks.
Gaza saw some of the worst violence as Palestinians and
Israeli forces fought near an Israeli settlement.
Violence again rocked Jerusalem. Israeli police said they
used tear gas to disperse protesters who threw stones at
security forces from the Temple Mount religious compound.
Known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble
Sanctuary or al-Haram al-Sharif.
Reports were that 35 people were injured in Bethlehem,
dozens more were reported injured in isolated clashes.
The Palestinians blamed the violence on tensions stoked by
Sharon's visit and what they called the Israeli authorities'
use of excessive force. Israeli authorities said their actions
were justified to keep order and protect civilians.
Checks made by Reuters with Jerusalem hospitals confirmed
at least six Palestinians were killed on Friday.
An Israeli soldier was shot dead in the West Bank town of
Qalqiliya on Friday and an Israeli soldier died in a bomb
attack in Gaza on Wednesday, before the clashes erupted.
Israel barred its citizens on Friday from entering
Palestinian-ruled areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after
the trouble flared. It closed the border crossing between
Jerusalem and the West Bank on Saturday.
The disturbances were a further blow to stumbling peace
talks that failed to result in a deal at a Camp David summit
in July amid disagreement over the fate of Jerusalem.
Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle
East war and annexed it in a move not recognised
internationally. It has declared the city its eternal and
undivided capital.
The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of the
independent state they plan to declare.
Negotiators ended separate talks with U.S. officials near
Washington on Thursday without any sign of progress.
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