- Title: GAZA/WEST BANK: PALESTINIAN YOUTHS CLASH WITH ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES IN HEBRON.
- Date: 10th February 2001
- Summary: HEBRON, WEST BANK (FEBRUARY 10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV/CU: PALESTINIAN YOUNGSTERS WITH ISRAELI SOLDIERS (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. GV: PALESTINIANS THROWING STONES 0.19 3. GV: PALESTINIAN CHILD THROWING STONE 0.23 4. GV: ISRAELI SOLDIER FIRING TEAR GAS 0.28 5. LV: PALESTINIANS RUNNING UP STEPS 0.35 6. GV: ISRAE
- Embargoed: 25th February 2001 12:00
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- Location: GAZA/ HEBRON, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA8TWAE9B4QVT1B7QDN3I5RD8UD
- Story Text: Stone-throwing Palestinian youths have clashed with
Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Hebron.
In Gaza, the Palestinians continue to mourn their dead
into the fifth month of the renewed violence in the region.
Confrontations between Israeli solders and Palestinian
youths flared in the West Bank town of Hebron on Saturday
(February 10) four days after Israelis chose right-winger
Ariel Sharon to lead them.
At least 384 people, most of them Palestinians, have been
killed in unrest that erupted in September amid deadlock in
efforts to end the 52-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The tensions on Saturday followed a night of exchanges of
gunfire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces in
various locations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of mourners in Gaza attended the funeral of Ayman
Abu Hawly, 16, a goat-herd who hospital officials say, died of
his wounds after being shot by Israeli soldiers near the
Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom.
Chanting "We will avenge your death," hundreds of
Palestinians marched through the streets carrying his body.
Ayman Abu Hawly was the first fatality in
Israeli-Palestinian confrontations since Monday (February 5)
when an Israeli soldier was shot in the Gaza Strip and this
was also the first death since right-winger Ariel Sharon
triumphed in Israel's prime ministerial election on Tuesday.
The peace process is currently on hold with the new
Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon saying that his
administration will not come to the negotiating table and
discuss the situation until violence ceases.
A U.N. team was due to start a week-long inquiry into
human rights violations in the area on Saturday, a day after
Israel reiterated that it would not cooperate.
The mission plans to visit Gaza, Jerusalem and the West
Bank to prepare a report for the annual U.N. Commission on
Human Rights meeting that starts on March on March 19.
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