WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: CLASHES BETWEEN PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN KHARBATHA OVER WEST BANK BARRIER

Record ID: 400692

  • Title: WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: CLASHES BETWEEN PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN KHARBATHA OVER WEST BANK BARRIER
  • Date: 21st March 2004
  • Summary: (W3) KHARBATHA, WEST BANK (MARCH 21, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF CLASHES BETWEEN PALESTINIAN VILLAGERS AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS/ ISRAEL SOLDIER PUSHING WOMAN AND THEN USING BATON 0.17 2. VARIOUS OF MORE CLASHES 0.34 3. SLV PALESTIN IAN MAN ARGUING WITH SOLDIER 0.41 3. VARIOUS OF MORE CLASHES WITH SOLDIERS USING THEIR BAT
  • Embargoed: 5th April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: KHARBATHA, WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVACE3017Q7ENOV024I87GTUR4O0
  • Story Text: Clashes erupt in Kharbatha during demonstration
    against West Bank barrier.



    Israeli forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and
    tear gas at stone-throwing Palestinians protesting on
    Sunday (March 21) against a controversial West Bank barrier
    being built in their village.

    At least 26 Palestinians and an Israeli peace activist
    were hurt in Kharbatha al-Misbah village in the latest of a
    series of violent protests in the West Bank against a
    project that Israel says stops suicide bombers and
    Palestinians call a land grab. The Israeli was hit by a
    rubber bullet, witnesses said.

    Huge mechanical excavators levelled land at the
    village, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah, as local
    farmers, school children and their supporters protested
    against construction of a new section of razor wire-tipped
    fence.

    The bulwark of fences and walls built so far in the
    West Bank runs 180 km (110 miles) and is to stretch over
    700 km (420 miles).

    Palestinians say the barrier, by snaking well into the
    West Bank and taking in Jewish settlements, is intended to
    annex territory that Israel occupied in a 1967 war but
    which they want for a viable state under a U.S.-backed
    peace plan.

    The barrier, whose legality if under World Court
    scrutiny, has cut off tens of thousands of Palestinians
    from urban markets, services, neighbouring villages and
    farmland.



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