- Title: WEST BANK: TWO PALESTINIAN INJURED AS ISRAELI SOLDIERS IMPOSE CURFEW ON HEBRON
- Date: 1st February 2003
- Summary: (W4) HEBRON, WEST BANK (FEBRUARY 1, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN THROWING STONES AT AN ISRAELI TANK 0.04 2. WIDE OF CHILDREN IN STREET THROWING STONES IN DIRECTION OF TANK 0.11 3. SLV BOY ROLLING A TYRE TOWARDS THE TANK/ ANOTHER BOY THROWING STONES 0.23 4. WIDE OF CHILDREN RUNNING TOWARDS TANK AND THROW
- Embargoed: 16th February 2003 12:00
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- Location: HEBRON, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Two Palestinians have been injured in Hebron as Israeli
forces continued to impose closure on the city and Palestinian
youths hurled stones at tanks.
Troops imposed a city-wide curfew on the West Bank city
of Hebron on Saturday (February 1) as part of an open-ended
sweep for Palestinian militants which began on Thursday
(January 30).
A Palestinian woman returning home from hospital was
wounded by Israeli fire when troops enforcing the curfew shot
at her taxi, city residents said.
At the centre of the city, Palestinian youths hurled
stones and water pipes at the tanks, which were driving down
the main streets. The youths burnt tires in the streets, and
Israeli border police arrived at the scene to disperse the
protesters.
Witnesses said one child was injured when he was hit on
the head by a stray stone.
The Israeli raid on Hebron started on Thursday (January
30), following the killing of three soldiers outside a Jewish
settlement a week ago near the city.
On Friday (January 31), Israeli army engineers blew up two
houses belonging to Palestinian militants.
One house belonged to a Palestinian convicted of shooting
to death an Israeli baby nearly two years ago in a Jewish
settler enclave in the city. The other home belonged to a
militant who blew up in a taxi while on his way to carry out a
suicide bombing, the army said.
Some 450 settlers live in heavily guarded compounds in
Hebron, home to 150,000 Palestinians.
Final results of Tuesday's Israeli parliamentary election
gave Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's victorious right-wing Likud
party 38 seats in the 120-member parliament, one better than
in earlier tallies.
Short of a ruling majority, Sharon faces an uphill battle
to create the unity coalition he says is needed to confront
what he calls terrorism and the prospect of a U.S. war on Iraq
that
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