MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI TROOPS CLASH WITH DEMONSTRATORS OVER BUILDING OF WEST BANK BARRIER AT BUDRUS. / PALESTINIANS 39TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH IN GAZA OF FATAH MOVEMENT.

Record ID: 400402

  • Title: MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI TROOPS CLASH WITH DEMONSTRATORS OVER BUILDING OF WEST BANK BARRIER AT BUDRUS. / PALESTINIANS 39TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH IN GAZA OF FATAH MOVEMENT.
  • Date: 31st December 2003
  • Summary: (W4) BUDRUS, NEAR RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 31, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: ARMED ISRAELI SOLDIERS RUNNING IN BUDRUS. 0.11 2. VARIOUS: PALESTINIAN WOMEN CHANTING 'GOD IS GREAT,' TRYING TO BLOCK ARMY JEEP, SOLDIERS THROWING TEAR GAS AT WOMEN AND WOMEN RUNNING. 0.25 3. LV: WOMEN RUNNING TRYING TO PUT EARTH ON THE TEAR GAS. 0.30 4.
  • Embargoed: 15th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BUDRUS, NEAR RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ GAZA CITY, GAZA
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA6ZI1R2SUKCGYEEV1OE52C0K8Q
  • Story Text: Israeli troops clash with protesters at
    controversial barrier building site.



    Israeli troops on Wednesday (December 31) shot and
    wounded at least 10 Palestinians and one Israeli involved
    in a protest at a construction site for Israel's
    controversial barrier in the West Bank.

    Military sources said one border policeman was lightly
    wounded after protesters began throwing stones and
    interrupting construction work on the barrier. They said
    soldiers used "non-lethal means" to disperse the protesters
    and did not use live ammunition.

    Israeli soldiers fired towards around 500 Palestinian,
    Israeli and foreign protesters near bulldozers turning over
    ground for an extension of the barrier.

    The incident, outside the Palestinian village of Budrus
    near Ramallah, was the second time in five days that the
    army opened fire at demonstrators gathered by the barrier.

    On December 26, troops shot and wounded a young Israeli and
    an American with live fire.

    Palestinian medics said 20 Palestinians were hit by
    rubber bullets and taken to hospital while an Israeli woman
    was slightly wounded in the leg.

    Palestinians say Israel's vast barrier grabs land from
    West Bank territory they see as part of a future state.

    Israel says the barrier is needed to keep out suicide
    bombers.

    Hundreds of Palestinians marched through the streets of
    Gaza city on Wednesday (December 31) to mark the 39th
    anniversary of the founding of Palestinian President Yasser
    Arafat's Fatah movement.

    Hundreds marched, waving flags of the Fatah movement -
    the dominant party in the Palestinian parliament - and
    portraits of Arafat.

    The march came as persistent violence threatened the
    U.S.-backed road map to Palestinian statehood in the West
    Bank and the Gaza Strip.

    Late on Tuesday (December 30) Palestinians vowed
    revenge after Israel botched a bid to kill a militant
    leader with a missile strike, wounding 10 passers-by.

    The Gaza attack seemed to settle what Israeli media
    reports have described as a debate within the security
    forces over targeting Hamas again following the collapse
    earlier this month
    of Egyptian-sponsored talks to coax militants into a truce.

    Israel has not carried out helicopter attacks against
    the Islamic group since October 20, when members of its Izz
    el-Qassem brigade were killed in their car in Gaza City.



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