WEST BANK: CLASHES HAVE ERUPTED BETWEEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND PALESTINIANS AT A CHECKPOINT IN HEBRON

Record ID: 400341

  • Title: WEST BANK: CLASHES HAVE ERUPTED BETWEEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND PALESTINIANS AT A CHECKPOINT IN HEBRON
  • Date: 15th June 2002
  • Summary: (U4) HEBRON, WEST BANK (JUNE 15, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PULL OUT LV ISRAELI SOLDIER RELEASED TEARGAS GRENADE/ KICKS IN ALONG ROAD; TEARGAS GRENADE GOING OFF 0.12 2. LV/SLV ISRAELI SOLDIERS HOLDING CROWD BACK (3 SHOTS) 0.35 3. CU PALESTINIAN GIRL CRYING 0.42 4. SV CROWD LEAVING AREA 0.52 5. SLV ISRAELI ARMY VEHICL
  • Embargoed: 30th June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK / JENIN, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVACG37YLW5XN0J85AMJXRDC2PBM
  • Story Text: Clashes have erupted between Israeli soldiers and
    Palestinians at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron.

    They came shortly after a small contingent of Israeli troops
    entered the West Bank city of Jenin briefly, declaring a
    curfew and searching for suspected Palestinian militants after
    the army said it received intelligence warnings that a
    terrorist attack was about to be launched from the city.



    Israeli soldiers fired several shots into the air and
    threw three tear gas canisters near about 200 Palestinians,
    many of them women and children, trying to cross at a
    checkpoint near Hebron on Saturday (June 15).

    The people crossing included families trying to return to
    their village and labourers returning from work.

    A man and several women fainted during the the incident.

    Armoured vehicles and jeeps entered Jenin in the northern
    West Bank before dawn on Saturday (June 15), under cover of
    heavy machinegun fire.

    No-one was arrested or injured in the raid that lasted
    five hours.

    The Israeli army said a patrol was sent into Jenin
    following intelligence warnings militants were about to launch
    an attack against Israel from the city.

    The army has regularly raided Palestinian-ruled towns,
    cities, villages and refugee camps in operations which it says
    are intended to seek-out militants and halt the suicide
    attacks.

    Israeli forces have entered Jenin several times since
    heavy fighting broke out in the city and its adjacent refugee
    camp in April during a major Israeli military offensive across
    the West Bank that failed to halt the suicide bombings.

    The pre-dawn raid was the latest in a series of almost
    daily incursions into Palestinian-ruled territory that have
    maintained pressure on Palestinian militant groups as U.S
    President George W. Bush works on a peace initiative after 20
    months of conflict.

    The U.S. administration held more consultations with
    Middle East leaders on Friday (June 14) as Bush prepares to
    unveil his vision, based on a two-state solution, probably
    next week.

    jg/CAH


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