- Title: WEST BANK: VIOLENCE ERUPTS BETWEEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND PROTESTING STUDENTS.
- Date: 2nd October 2001
- Summary: (W4) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 2, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/GV: DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING WITH BANNERS CALLING FOR AN END TO THE CLOSURE OF THE ACCESS ROAD TO BIR ZEIT UNIVERSITY (2 SHOTS) 0.19 2. CU: ROAD SIGN TO RAMALLAH 0.23 3. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) HANNAN NASSER, DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BIR ZEIT SPEAKING AT RALLY: "They (
- Embargoed: 17th October 2001 13:00
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- Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
- City:
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAAK6916MAEOQCOIH1JI9D2AWLT
- Story Text: Violence has erupted between Israeli soldiers and
Palestinian protesters after hundreds of West bank students
and teachers, backed by foreign protesters, held a rally to
demonstrate against the Israeli military's closure of roads
providing access to Bir Zeit University near Ramallah. There
have been no reports of injuries.
The violence at an Israeli military roadblock on the
approaches to Bir Zeit University began after a protest march
through the streets of Ramallah in the West Bank on Tuesday
(October 2).
Palestinians at the protest said the road block was one
element in a policy of collective punishment that Israel was
using against the Palestinian people.
Foreign protesters also attended the march.
University officials said there was no reason for the road
to be closed, and absolutely no security threat from students
travelling to classes.
Israeli soldiers fired teargas and plastic coated rubber
bullets at protesters after the Palestinians tried to reduce
the earth and stone roadblock.
The violence came as Israel and the Palestinians faced new
U.S. pressure to halt violence.
Prior to the clashes, Israel and the Palestinian
territories had been unusually quiet on Tuesday, following a
fresh surge of violence and a car bomb attack in Jerusalem on
Monday (October 1).
The bomb, which exploded in a car park near a Jerusalem
shopping district, caused no serious injuries. But it
heightened alarm about the violence, in which 17 Palestinians
have been killed since the two sides reaffirmed their
commitment to a ceasefire plan last Wednesday (September 26).
The United States hopes an end to the fighting would help
it enlist Arab and Islamic states to the global anti-terror
alliance it is trying to form in response to the suicide plane
attacks on New York and Washington on September 11.
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