VARIOUS: ISRAEL BEGINS TROOP PULLBACK IN GAZA AS MILITANT PALESTINIAN GROUPS DECLARE CEASEFIRE

Record ID: 400900

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAEL BEGINS TROOP PULLBACK IN GAZA AS MILITANT PALESTINIAN GROUPS DECLARE CEASEFIRE
  • Date: 1st July 2003
  • Summary: (W6) EREZ CHECKPOINT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA (JUNE 29) (REUTERS) 1. NIGHT VIEWS OF ISREALI MILITARY VEHICLES DRIVING FROM GAZA, CROSSING EREZ CHECKPOINT, AND DRIVING BACK TO ISRAEL 2. SMV ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLES, SOLDIERS 5.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2003 13:00
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  • Location: EREZ CROSSING AT BORDER BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA
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  • Country: Gaza Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA93PJTRAZX2U246CU2T2DIKMW3
  • Story Text: Israel began a troop pullback in Gaza on Sunday (June
    29, 2003) and three leading Palestinian militant groups
    declared a three-month suspension of attacks on Israelis in
    breakthroughs for a U.S.-backed peace plan.

    Israeli armoured vehicles rumbled out of the northern Gaza
    town of Beit Hanoun towards the Israeli border as part of a
    withdrawal from areas reoccupied in the Gaza Strip during a
    33-month-old Palestinian uprising for statehood.

    Israel said it would start withdrawing forces from occupied areas
    of northern Gaza in return for Palestinian police assuming
    security control and preventing militant attacks on Israelis.

    For the first time in two years, Palestinian security
    officers toured the Gaza Strip with their Israeli counterparts
    to prepare the pullback.


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