VARIOUS: ISRAELI TROOPS MOVE INTO WEST BANK CITY OF HEBRON AS CIA CHIEF GEORGE TENET HOLDS TALKS WITH PALESTIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT
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VARIOUS: ISRAELI TROOPS MOVE INTO WEST BANK CITY OF HEBRON AS CIA CHIEF GEORGE TENET HOLDS TALKS WITH PALESTIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT
- 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: (U3) TEL AVIV, ISRAELI (JUNE 4, 2002) (REUTERS) WIDE SHOT OF MEMORIAL CEREMONY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM DOLPHINARIUM BOMBING ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK MV ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES SPEAKING TO AUDIENCE AT MEMORIAL; MV/ SCU GIRLS LISTENING IN AUDIENCE (3 SHOTS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) PERES SAYING "It's a free-for-all. It's dangerous to all. We hope that Mr. Tenet will help them to build a structure which will contain a central authority over all arms, all armed people, all use of arms." SCU STUDENTS LIGHTING MEMORIAL CANDLES Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th June 2002 13:00
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- Location: HEBRON, NEAR NABLUS AND RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: War / Fighting,International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVA88LP3MWDILMPQATSK2NC0IRZ
- 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. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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