JERUSALEM/WEST BANK/GAZA/ISRAEL: FUNERALS TAKE PLACE FOR VICTIMS OF RECENT CLASHES/ LATEST.

Record ID: 400763

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK/GAZA/ISRAEL: FUNERALS TAKE PLACE FOR VICTIMS OF RECENT CLASHES/ LATEST.
  • Date: 3rd October 2000
  • Summary: NABLUS, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 2, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV/GV: TWO YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN GIRL, KILLED ON MONDAY WHEN ISRAELI TROOPS FIRED ON CAR SHE WAS TRAVELLING IN/ RELATIVES AT HER HOME/ RELATIVES HOLDING DEAD GIRL (3 SHOTS) 0.30 JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 2, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. GV: EXTERIOR OF PRIME MINISTERS OFFICE 0.34
  • Embargoed: 18th October 2000 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ BEIT JENNA, NORTHERN ISRAEL/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/ GAZA/ RAMALLAH AND NABLUS, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA21Y6HL7E067CDI702KNOIL7EG
  • Story Text: Funerals have taken place for a two-year-old
    Palestinian girl and an Israeli soldier -- just two of the
    victims of clashes which are gripping Israel and the West
    Bank.

    Prime Minister Ehud Barak has convened a special session of
    his security cabinet and appealed to Israeli Arabs, who make
    up nearly 20 percent of Israel's population of six million, to
    cease their protests.

    The death toll from five days of violence has now reached
    47.



    The two-year-old girl was buried in the West Bank town
    of Nablus on Monday (October 2). She had been killed earlier
    in the day when Israeli soldiers fired upon the car in which
    she was riding.

    As the crisis heightened, Prime Minister Ehud Barak
    convened a special session of his security cabinet and
    appealed to Israeli Arabs, who make up nearly 20 percent of
    Israel's population of six million, to cease their protests.

    "The Israeli government believes strongly that it must
    live up to its commitment of upholding the law but at the same
    time we will work to calm the situation," said Barak.

    "I cannot but express my great regret for all the lives
    lost in today's events, especially in northern Israel."
    He was speaking after Israeli Arabs stepped up their their
    fight in support of Palestinian brethren battling Israeli
    security forces, turning parts of the Galilee into war zones
    on Monday as the death toll from five days of violence reached
    47.

    At least six Arab citizens of the Jewish state were killed
    in clashes with Israeli police and another died of wounds
    suffered on Sunday, raising the Israeli Arab death toll in the
    current wave of violence to eight, medical officials said.

    Emotions ran high over the high death toll, the intensity
    of the clashes and the failure to agree on the future of
    Jerusalem.

    "It's a massacre being committed against the Palestinian
    people," said Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat told
    Reuters.

    Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier killed in clashes on Sunday
    was buried in his home town of Beit Jenna on Monday.


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