VARIOUS: ISRAELI SOLDIERS CLASH WITH PROTESTORS/ PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS KILLS HIMSELF AND INJURES TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS

Record ID: 400478

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAELI SOLDIERS CLASH WITH PROTESTORS/ PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS KILLS HIMSELF AND INJURES TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS
  • Date: 13th September 2004
  • Summary: (W5)DEER SAMET, SOUTH OF HEBRON, WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 14, 2004)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF DEMONSTRATORS NEAR BUILDING EQUIPMENT BEING USED FOR ERECTION OF FENCE 0.07 2. CLOSE OF PROTESTERS' BANNER READING "ISRAEL THE WORLD IS WATCHING" 0.11 3. WIDE OF CHANTING PROTESTORS CONFRONTING ISRAELI SOLDIERS 0.16 4. WIDE OF ISRAELI SO
  • Embargoed: 28th September 2004 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: DEER SAMET, SOUTH OF HEBRON;RAMALLAH; HABLA; JENIN, WEST BANK/JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA14QLS38GBNKEBFW5RY4VKBSP9
  • Story Text: Israeli soldiers clash heavily with peace activists
    in the West Bank as a Palestinian suicide bomber blows
    himself up, injuring two Israeli soldiers.




    Israelis, Palestinians and International peace
    activists clashed with Israeli soldiers at Deer Samet, near
    the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday (September 14).

    Soldiers fired tear gas at protesters gathered to demonstrate
    again
    st the controversial Israeli separation
    barrier which Israel claims is necessary to keep
    Palestinian suicide bombers from entering Israel.

    Palestinians say their land is being taken away from them.

    Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie on Tuesday
    condemned Israel's closure of
    six voter registration centres in Arab East Jerusalem,
    accusing Israel of trying to "Judaize" the holy city.

    Palestinians opened the offices earlier this month to
    register East Jerusalem voters for a future Palestinian
    general election, a step towards meeting international and
    domestic demands for Palestinian reform.

    But Israeli police said they closed the offices on
    Monday, accusing Palestinians of "illegal polling
    activities".

    Israel considers all of Jerusalem, including the Arab
    eastern sector, as its capital and objects to Palestinian
    electioneering there. Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as
    the capital of a state they seek in Israeli-occupied
    territories.

    "This decision shows Israel's pursuit of its policy to
    Judaize (Arab East) Jerusalem and strip its people of their
    rights," Qurie said in reference to the part of the city
    Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

    Qurie said the Palestinian Authority was determined to
    carry out plans to register voters in "all Palestinian
    territories that Israel occupied in 1967 starting with holy
    Jerusalem".

    Israel annexed East Jerusalem after capturing it, a
    move not recognised internationally.

    Palestinians living in Jerusalem were permitted to take
    part in the first Palestinian presidential and legislative
    elections in 1996 held under interim peace deals with
    Israel. Seven lawmakers represent them in the Palestinian
    parliament.

    Palestinian officials said Israel's actions this time
    showed it was bent on cementing its grip on the Arab east
    of the city.

    "On this we caution the international community and
    the (international mediating) Quartet not to wait until
    Israel completes these plans. This is dangerous for
    Jerusalem," Qurie said.

    Palestinians have set up about 1,000 registration
    centres across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem for
    presidential and legislative elections that are nearly four
    years overdue. No date has been set for the elections.

    A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew up at a West Bank
    crossing wounding two Israeli soldiers on Tuesday, the
    Israeli army said.

    The army said the blast occurred near a passage built
    for Palestinian farmers outside the West Bank city of
    Qalqilya, and that one soldier was wounded seriously,
    another lightly.

    The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in
    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement,
    claimed responsibility for the blast and said it was
    carried out to avenge Israel's killing of three militants
    in an air strike in Jenin on Monday (September 13).

    A spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs Bridgades militants
    identified the bomber as a 26-year-old Palestinian man from
    Qalqilya, situated on the West Bank's boundary with Israel.

    In the West Bank town of Jenin, up to 6,000 people
    attended a funeral procession to mourn the deaths of three
    militants from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who were killed
    by Israeli troops in an air strike on the car in which they
    were travelling in Jenin on Monday (September 13).

    The streets of the town echoed to the sounds of gunfire
    as supporters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed
    group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah
    faction, attended the funeral procession.

    Zaccharia Zubeidi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs'
    Brigades in Jenin, shot a gun through an Israeli flag
    during the funeral procession.

    One of the men who died in the Israeli attack was the
    deputy al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader in Jenin, Mahmoud
    Abu Khalifeh.


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