WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: ISRAELI TEENAGERS INJURED IN EXPLOSION NEAR JEWISH SETTLEMENT/ PALESTINIAN GUNMEN EXECUTE SUSPECTED COLLABORATORS

Record ID: 640626

  • Title: WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: ISRAELI TEENAGERS INJURED IN EXPLOSION NEAR JEWISH SETTLEMENT/ PALESTINIAN GUNMEN EXECUTE SUSPECTED COLLABORATORS
  • Date: 12th June 2002
  • Summary: MV: MEN LOOKING AT BODY OF DEAD COLLABORATOR MV: OFFICIAL WRITING REPORT IN FRONT OF BODY OF SECOND COLLABORATOR MV/PAN: FOUR LITTLE BOYS LOOKING AT BODY; MORE OF CROWD STANDING BY UINIVERSITY GATES (2 SHOTS) MV/PAN: MEN CARRYING BODY AND PUTTING IT INTO TAXI
  • Embargoed: 27th June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: KIRYAT ARBA, RAMALLAH, HEBRON AND BEIT JALA, WEST BANK/TZUR BACHER, EAST JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: War / Fighting,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA2RK3LHCJH3690KELFR7A2OEU7
  • Story Text: At least three Israeli teenagers have been wounded by an explosion near their armoured school bus outside the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba.
    Elsewhere in the West Bank tension remained high with Israeli forces holding Ramallah in their grip and Palestinian gunmen in Hebron executing suspected collaborators.
    The bomb exploded on Tuesday (June 11) as several dozen high school pupils left a field near Kiryat Arba where they had been picking cherries and doing other work and headed towards the bus, the settlers said.
    An Israeli police spokesman said three 15-years-old students of a Jewish seminary in Kiryat Arba were hurt.
    Kiryat Arba is near the city of Hebron, which is divided between more than 100,000 Palestinians and a small enclave of a few hundred Jewish settlers.
    Settlers have been frequently targeted by Palestinians waging a 20-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
    Earlier on Tuesday in Hebron, Palestinian gunmen shot dead two Palestinians for allegedly collaborating with Israel by passing on information.
    The body of one of the men was dumped in front of a mosque and a wrecked car, left where it was hit during an Israeli helicopter attack several weeks ago that killed a leading local militant.
    The body of the second man, who worked in the public relations department of Hebron University, was left outside the university gate.
    Meanwhile, Israel buoyed by U.S. President George W.
    Bush's declared support of Israel's right to self-defence, continued to beef-up security across the Palestinian territories.
    A new check-point was set up on the road leading from Beit Jala to the Palestinian Rehabilitation Centre. Palestinian ambulances carrying patients and doctors, were stopped by Israeli soldiers and not allowed to go through.
    The U.S. support expressed by President Bush was well received by the Israelis.
    "We note with pleasure that the American administration and the American president have been also respecting the Israeli perspective," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said.
    But Palestinians responded to the American president's statement with stern criticism.
    Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said, "Mr Bush when he repeated that he supports the right of Israel to self-defence, in fact he is supporting the policy of siege, of creating isolation centres for the Palestinian people and of continuous aggression and re-occupation of the Palestinian cities as we witnessed today in Ramallah."
    Israeli troops carried out more arrests and house searches in Ramallah and continued to surround Palestinian president Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
    The army said it arrested 31 Palestinians in the raids in Ramallah, Hebron and Jabaa village, but a senior Israeli source in Washington put the figure at more than 50. No reason was given for the discrepancy.
    Israel sent tanks into Ramallah before dawn on Monday (June 10) to encircle Arafat's battered headquarters in an operation it said was intended to seek out militants following a resurgence of Palestinian suicide bombings against Israelis.
    In East Jerusalem the almost daily "battle for land"
    continued with Israeli forces demolishing what they declare to be "illegal settlements". Four Palestinian families lost their homes on Tuesday (June 11) after Israeli forces bulldozed their houses in the Tzur Bacher suburb of East Jerusalem.
    Right in the centre of the city, next to the Damascus gate an Israeli border policeman was stabbed on Tuesday.
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