JERUSALEM/WEST BANK/GAZA: ISRAELI TROOPS CLASH WITH PALESTINIANS DEMONSTRATORS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP

Record ID: 400473

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK/GAZA: ISRAELI TROOPS CLASH WITH PALESTINIANS DEMONSTRATORS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP
  • Date: 27th October 2000
  • Summary: WEST BANK (OCTOBER 27, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SLV OF ARMY JEEPS, BURNING CARS AND SHOTS BEING FIRED IN THE WEST BANK (6 SHOTS) 0.44 GAZA (OCTOBER 27, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. MCU/SV MASKED SUPPORTERS OF THE ISLAMIC JIHAD (HOLY STRUGGLE) MOVEMENT MARCHING IN STREET, SHOWING VICTORY SIGN AND WEARING FAKE EXPLOSIVES BELTS
  • Embargoed: 11th November 2000 12:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK/ GAZA
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA1U3819KW2Z3CP1VRK10DUZMAK
  • Story Text: Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians on Friday
    during clashes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, witnesses and
    medical sources say.

    Clashes flared between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian
    demonstrators in several West Bank flashpoints during a "Day
    of Rage" coinciding with the Moslem holy day.



    A Palestinian man was shot dead in a clash near the
    Erez checkpoint dividing the Palestinian-ruled territory from
    Israel on Friday (October 27), said Muawiyah Hasanein, head of
    the emergency department in Gaza's Shifa hospital. He said the
    man was aged 23.

    Three Palestinian demonstrators were killed earlier in the
    West Bank towns of Qalqilya, Tulkarm and Ramallah.

    The renewed violence comes on the Moslem holy day and
    follows the funeral of a 24-year-old Palestinian
    suicide-bomber who drove a bicycle packed with explosives into
    a concrete wall near an Israeli army post on Thursday.

    Witnesses said the soldiers in some cases fired teargas,
    rubber-coated metal bullets and live rounds, and gunbattles
    erupted between Palestinian militiamen and Israeli soldiers in
    Ramallah.

    In Gaza, supporters of the Islamic Jihad (Holy
    Struggle) movement marched through the streets, condemning
    Israel for the continuing violence.

    As Palestinian President Yasser Arafat attended Friday
    prayers at a Gaza mosque, Israel Radio reported the militant
    Islamic group Hamas had called on Palestinians to clash with
    Israeli soldiers after the Friday prayers.

    Checks by Reuters show that at least 137 people, all but
    eight of them Arabs, have been killed in a month of
    Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed that has left Middle East peace
    efforts in tatters.

    Israel is bracing itself for bomb attacks on buses, in
    markets and in town squares, after warnings that militant
    Islamic groups were planning to send suicide bombers into
    Israeli cities.

    Hundreds of Moslem worshippers who were refused access to
    the Al-Aqsa mosque by the Israeli security forces on Friday
    (October 27) morning prayed outside in the streets. In
    previous weeks, Israeli security forces have refused access to
    Moslem worshippers under the age of 40.

    In Gaza, realatives and friends payed their respects,
    rallying around the body to the young Palestinian man shot
    dead near the Erez checkpoint just hours earlier.

    According to the head of the emergency department in Gaza's
    Shifa hospital, the man killed near Erez was aged 23.

    The World Muslim Congress called on Friday for Islamic
    states to halt all cooperation with Israel over its treatment
    of Palestinians over the past month. Israel's army said it had
    tightened security along its borders with Lebanon and Syria as
    a precaution against attacks by Hizbollah guerrillas.



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