WEST BANK: U.S. ENVOY ANTHONY ZINNI ARRIVES IN RAMALLAH FOR TALKS WITH PALESTINIAN LEADERS

Record ID: 566167

  • Title: WEST BANK: U.S. ENVOY ANTHONY ZINNI ARRIVES IN RAMALLAH FOR TALKS WITH PALESTINIAN LEADERS
  • Date: 28th November 2001
  • Summary: (W5) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (NOVEMBER 28, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PULL OUT SLV SENIOR PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR, SAEB EREKAT ARRIVES AT OFFICE OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT AND MEETS U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY ANTHONY ZINNI BEFORE THEY ENTER TOGETHER 0.35 (W5) NABLUS, WEST BANK (NOVEMBER 28, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. SLV AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT SITE WHERE ELDERLY MAN WAS RUN OVER BY THE CAR OF A JEWISH SETTER 0.45 3. SV DEAD MAN INSIDE AMBULANCE 0.59 4. SLV ISRAELI SOLDIERS ON ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER ON ROAD OUTSIDE OF WEST BANK TOWN OF NABLUS 1.04 5. LV SOLDIER JUMPING OUT OF JEEP AND FIRING AT CROWD OF YOUTHS ON OTHER SIDE OF ROADBLOCK (2 SHOTS) 1.17 6. SLV ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER DRIVING OFF-ROAD 1.27 7. SLV SOLDIERS NEXT TO ROADBLOCK 1.33 8. SLV PULL OUT LV KIDS WITH FLAG, THROWING STONES 1.46 9. SLV SOLDIERS TAKING COVER BEHIND A ROCK 1.50 10. LV SOLDIERS RUNNING TOWARDS PALESTINIAN YOUTHS AND MEETING A PAIR OF PALESTINIANS WALKING ON THE ROAD 2.06 11. LV MORE OF YOUTHS AT CHECKPOINT 2.10 12. ARMY JEEPS DRIVING TOWARD CHECKPOINT 2.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th December 2001 12:00
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  • Location: NABLUS & RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA3SING0GAPWTB5UD7ZUQT5XXVO
  • Story Text: United States envoy Anthony Zinni arrived in the West
    Bank city of Ramallah for talks with Palestinian leaders to
    continue his Middle East mission which has already been marred
    by bloodshed.

    Meanwhile Palestinians have clashed with Israeli soldiers
    in Nablus after an Israeli motorist ran over and killed an
    elderly Palestinian man just outside the West Bank city.



    Zinni, the retired Marine Corps general, traveled with
    U.S. consular officials to the West Bank for a closer look at
    an area where Palestinians see the red roofs of Jewish
    settlements as obstacles to their aspirations for a state.

    Zinni's talks with Israeli officials on Tuesday (November
    27) were overshadowed by violence in which a total of three
    Palestinian gunmen and three Israelis were killed. The
    violence continued on the day of his talks with Palestinian
    officials, as Palestinians protested at the death of
    75-year-old Ibrahim Moussa Hanani.

    Palestinian witnesses said the car driven by a Jewish
    settler had intentionally hit Moussa. Israeli police have said
    their initial investigation showed the death was an accident.

    But loudspeakers on mosques in Hanani's village of Beit
    Forik declared Hanani a martyr in the 14-month-old Palestinian
    uprising against Israeli occupation.

    Palestinian witnesses said Hanani was crossing a road with
    four Palestinian labourers on their way to work in Nablus when
    a speeding Israeli car veered and hit the elderly man, who had
    already reached the shoulder off the road.

    An Israeli police spokeswoman said the preliminary
    investigation showed Hanani was still in the middle of the
    road when the Israeli motorist hit him. Police took the
    motorist, who had stopped his car after hitting Hanani, into
    custody for questioning.

    Despite the current backdrop of violence, the United
    States has said Zinni will remain in the region for as long as
    it takes to achieve his objectives. He is accompanied at the
    start of his mission by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
    William Burns.

    Global pressure for U.S. mediation and a desire to cement
    Arab support for its anti-terror war in Afghanistan prompted
    the United States to try again to end Israeli-Palestinian
    fighting.

    At least 725 Palestinians and 192 Israelis have been
    killed since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation
    began in September last year.


    (dw/rb)

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