VARIOUS: ISRAELI TROOPS MOVE INTO WEST BANK CITY OF HEBRON AS CIA CHIEF GEORGE TENET HOLDS TALKS WITH PALESTIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT

Record ID: 640603

  • Title: VARIOUS: ISRAELI TROOPS MOVE INTO WEST BANK CITY OF HEBRON AS CIA CHIEF GEORGE TENET HOLDS TALKS WITH PALESTIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT
  • Date: 5th June 2002
  • Summary: (W5) HEBRON, WEST BANK (JUNE 4, 2002) (REUTERS) SLV SOLDIERS RUNNING TO MARKET; SLV ISRAELI SOLDIERS THROWING STUN GRENADE IN STREET IN CENTRAL HEBRON (2 SHOTS) SLV ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS (APC) WITH ISRAELI TROOPS DRIVING THROUGH HEBRON; SLV SOLDIERS AND RESIDENTS OF HEBRON IN STREET (2 SHOTS) SLV STUN GRENADE GOING OFF IN STREET; SLV APC DRIVING BY MOSQUE WITH BOYS FOLLOWING BEHIND (3 SHOTS) MV BODY OF TEENAGE BOY SHOT BY ISRAELI SOLDIER IN BEIT OMAR VILLAGE NEAR HEBRON; SCU MAN CRYING (2 SHOTS) SLV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL (U3)ASKAR REFUGEE CAMP (NEAR NABLUS), WEST BANK (JUNE 4, 2002) (REUTERS) SLV DOZENS OF PALESTINIANS ARRESTED IN ASKAR REFUGEE CAMP NEAR NABLUS IN FRONT OF ISRAELI ARMY JEEPS; MV ARRESTED MEN SITTING AND STANDING IN GROUP (2 SHOTS) SLV ISRAELI APC MOVING THROUGH STREET; SLV ISRAELI TANK DRIVING IN STREET (2 SHOTS) (U3)BALATA REFUGEE CAMP (NEAR NABLUS), WEST BANK (JUNE 4, 2002) (REUTERS) SLV TILT UP ENTRANCE TO GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH IN REFUGEE CAMP OF BALATA NEAR NABLUS, NOW EMPTY OF ISRAELI TROOPS (2 SHOTS) MV PRIEST PICKING UP CROSS FROM FLOOR INSIDE CHURCH; SCU BROKEN ARTICLES IN CHURCH; MV CHILD WALKING ON RUBBLE OF HOUSES IN BALATA; MV PEOPLE EXAMINING DAMAGE TO HOUSE IN BALATA (4 SHOTS) SCU GRAVESTONE OF PALESTINIAN KILLED DURING INTIFADA IN RUBBLE; SLV. WRECKED HOUSE, ITS WALLS BLASTED; SLV PEOPLE CLIMBING ON HEAP OF RUBBLE FROM WRECKED BUILDING (3 SHOTS) (U3) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JUNE 4, 2002) (REUTERS) SLV CONVOY OF U.S. CIA CHIEF GEORGE TENET, TURNING CORNER INTO HEADQUARTERS OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT SLV ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE ARAFAT OFFICES; MV BANNER READING: "We've been suffering for fifty four years but Uncle Sam had no ears."; SLV PROTESTERS CARRYING BANNERS AND CHANTING: "No good morning, no good night, ya America we will fight."; MV MORE PROTESTERS (3 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 20th June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: HEBRON, NEAR NABLUS AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: War / Fighting,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA550JGXMBRU7HJWPZR121J36RT
  • Story Text: Israeli troops have moved into the West Bank city of Hebron with armoured personnel carriers (APCs) as CIA Chief George Tenet held talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
    Israeli armoured personnel carriers (APCs) drove into the heart of the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday (June 4, 2002), throwing stun grenades in order to clear the streets and impose a curfew.
    In the West Bank village of Beit Omar near Hebron, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager, witnesses said. The army said soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets at rock-throwing youths.
    The Israeli army has left Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, moving its troops and armoured vehicles into the neighbouring Askar camp in an overnight sweep to arrest a number of Palestinians just hours ahead of talks between U.S. CIA director George Tenet and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
    Tenet held talks with Arafat on building a unified Palestinian security force which Washington wants to combat suicide bombings against Israel.
    Israel has made any resumption of peace negotiations with the Palestinian conditional on a cessation of such violence and wide-ranging reforms within Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
    Tenet, who met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday (June 3), is on a mission which United States President George Bush said was aimed at building a united Palestinian force that will fight terror. The Palestinian Authority has nine separate and sometimes rival security services.
    "It's a free-for-all. It's dangerous," Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told Reuters in Tel Aviv, when he attended a memorial for high school students killed one year ago in a suicide bombing at a popular disco.
    "We hope that Mr Tenet will help them to build a structure which will contain a central authority over all arms," Peres added.
    Palestinian officials have said Israel's five-week West Bank offensive from late March to early May and the daily rolling raids into Palestinian cities that have followed made it impossible for the security services to function.
    The raids have followed a resurgence of Palestinian suicide bombings in a 20-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation.
    Israel says it has carried out such raids to seek out militants blamed for the suicide bombings.
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