WEST BANK: SECURITY REMAINS VISIBLE IN JERUSALEM DESPITE 55 DAYS OF RELATIVE CALM IN ISRAEL

Record ID: 566145

  • Title: WEST BANK: SECURITY REMAINS VISIBLE IN JERUSALEM DESPITE 55 DAYS OF RELATIVE CALM IN ISRAEL
  • Date: 28th November 2003
  • Summary: (U3) GILO CHECKPOINT, WEST BANK (NOVEMBER 28, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. MV: ISRAELI SOLDIERS CHECKING VEHICLE 0.11 2. PALESTINIANS WALKING TOWARDS CHECKPOINT PAN TO ISRAELI SECURITY HUT 0.30 (U3) JERUSALEM (NOVEMBER 28, 2003) (REUTERS) 3. POLICE AND SOLDIERS AT CHECKPOINT IN STREET 0.38 4. ISRAELI POLICE AND ARMED SOLDIERS CHECKING IDENTIFICATION 0.43 5. PEOPLE ENTERING MARKET PLACE 0.51 6. VARIOUS OF SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 1.07 7. PEOPLE WALKING PAST ARMED SECURITY 1.15 8. WIDE OF ENTRANCE TO JERUSALEM'S MAIN OPEN MARKET 1.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: GILO CHECKPOINT, WEST BANK / JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAE65ZZJVKPXN4GDJ3QDSP5PWSO
  • Story Text: Security remains visible in Jerusalem despite
    55-days of relative calm in Israel.


    Israelis and Pakestinians are doing thier best to
    live life as normal during one of the quietest spells in
    the region in several months.

    Friday (November 28) marks 55 days since the last
    suicide bombing against Israelis.

    The last suicide attack was on October 4, when a female
    suicide bomber blew herself up in a Haifa restaurant
    killing 21 people, among them five children.

    But while Israeli residents begin to be cautiously
    optimistic following almost two months of peace, random
    incidents have continued to take place between Israeli
    soldiers and Palestinians within the West Bank and Gaza,
    disrupting what would otherwise be a fairly peaceful spell
    in the Palestinian territories as well.

    On Thursday (November 27) hundreds of Palestinians
    marched in Gaza in a funeral for three Palestinians who
    were killed by Israeli troops late Wednesday (November 26).

    Israeli military sources said they killed the three
    Palestinians, including two militants, after they fled in a
    car following a foiled attempt to carry out an attack on a
    Gaza Strip road used by Jewish settlers and Israeli
    soldiers. But the army later admitted that there were no
    weapons found in the vehicle.

    Tension between the two sides has been aggravated by
    the construction of a controversial barrier constructed to
    separate the West Bank from Israel.

    Palestinians say the barrier, a swathe of concrete
    walls, electric fences and razor wire, is a bid to annex
    Palestinian terrain.

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, calling for talks
    with his Palestinian counterpart Ahmed Qurie, vowed on
    Thursday (November 27) to speed up work on the disputed
    West Bank wall which he says is vital for Israel's
    security. In a sign of compromise, however, he indicated
    that Israel would have to give up some occupied land in
    order to bring about peace with the Palestinians, but
    applied pressure to Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie,
    saying Israel would not give the Palestinians "unlimited
    time" to make peace.

    Qurie told reporters on Thursday that his bureau chief
    would meet Sharon's office director soon to prepare for a
    prime ministerial meeting.

    Washington has been prodding Israel to do more to
    implement the "road map" since Qurie took office this month
    and began negotiating with militants to steer them into a
    formal ceasefire to capitalise on almost two months without
    major violence.


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