- Title: VARIOUS: CLASHES BETWEEN ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES AND PALESTINIANS CONTINUE
- Date: 10th October 2000
- Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (OCTOBER 9, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF BUILDING 0.05 (MUTE) 2. MV INTERIOR, PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT SEATED WITH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK 0.09 3. SCU ARAFAT; SCU PAN MEETING; SCU MUBARAK AND ARAFAT (3 SHOTS) 0.23 RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 9, 2000) (REUTERS) 4. SV PROTEST
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- Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ GAZA/ CAIRO, EGYPT
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian
youths have continued in the Occupied Territories. Some of the
worst incidents were reported in the West Bank town of
Ramallah near where a Palestinian was found dead with his
skull smashed, bones broken and body burned.
Two more Palestinians died overnight from wounds they
received during clashes last week. Their funerals have
produced another outpouring of grief and anger as thousands
gathered to mourn their dead.
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has made his third
visit to Egypt in 10 days to discuss the crisis amid a flurry
of international diplomatic activity aimed at stopping the
bloodshed.
Israeli troops fired live and rubber-coated metal
bullets at Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank on
Monday (October 9), wounding at least eight people, witnesses
and medical sources said.
Such incidents were reported in and near the West Bank
towns of Nablus and Ramallah where witnesses said the Israeli
security forces used live rounds.
The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the
reports, but has said it uses live bullets when its soldiers'
lives are in direct danger.
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat returned to Gaza
around mid-day following talks with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak on prospects for holding a Middle East peace summit
and described the situation in the region as "dangerous."
Arafat did not say whether he would accept a U.S. proposal
for Egypt to host a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barak, but appeared pleased with the United Nations resolution
condemning Israel's use of force.
"I discussed with him all the details of the very
important resolution which had been accepted in the Security
Council and the other issues, mainly the insistence of the
international committee which will start its investigations,"
he said.
U.S. President Bill Clinton wants a Middle East peace
summit convened to try to end 12 days of violence between
Israeli security forces and Palestinians in which 89 people
have been killed, mostly Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has told Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat he must end the wave of protests by
Monday evening, a deadline which coincides with the end of the
Jewish Yom Kippur holiday.
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